Sociologie de l’imaginaire et tendances coloniales dans le film documentaire français à propos de l’Arabe maghrébin
Sociology of the Imaginary and Colonial Tendencies in the French Documentary Film about Maghrebian Arabic

Summary/Abstract: The metropolitan perception of the other has always raised ambiguities in French films. In fact, the documentary genre has played a role both equivocal and preponderant in the Maghreb's imagery since the colonial era to the postcolonial era. To summon this French Western imagination, we will discuss two tendencies in the film narrative among French documentarists, one described as pacification, or even invisibility, of the Maghrebi natives spreading over the period (1830 -1965); it corresponds to a colonial imaginary; and the other trend is that of confirmation identity, and the ostentatious visibility of the Maghrebian Arab on screen (period of independence stretching from 1965 to the present day .This is an anticolonial imaginary. We will show the evolution and the variables of such a look from the West vis-à-vis the East to the cinema.

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