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This module explores the history of cinema from the perspective of resistance. Taking its inspiration and title from a 1990 Radical History Review essay collection, the module uses “resistance” in two ways. First, it seeks to recover instances of oppositional filmmaking and, second, to overcome the ideological intentions of conventional texts and criticism. Offering a firm basis in the historiography of film, it examines cinema that resists and resistance to hegemonic cinema. Among the films that may be examined are Pépé le Moko (1937), Salt of the Earth (1954), The Battle of Algiers (Italy, 1966), How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971), Touki Bouki (1973), Maeve (1983), Rosa Luxemburg (1986), Once Were Warriors (1994), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2009), I Am Not Your Negro (2016).
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RESISTING IMAGES
