Course reserve list: LAW-681B-01

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LAW-681B-01 -- Can Philosophical Insights or Empirical Knowledge Help Us
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Cavallaro, James L

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1. La bataille d'Alger [videorecording] = The battle of Algiers [1966]

  • Special ed. - Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, c2004.
Description
Video — 3 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. ; 19 cm.).
Summary
  • disc.
  • 1. The battle of Algiers (121 min.)
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  • 2. Pontecorvo and the film
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  • 3. The film and history.
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.
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