[ecrea] CFP edited collection - ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb

Call for Proposals
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb

Rachid Bouchareb was born in Paris in 1953 to Algerian parents and 
became one of France’s first French filmmakers of North African descent. 
While his career now spans over thirty years and his diverse films have 
garnered both mainstream and critical success, including three Oscar 
nominations, there exists no book-length study (in French or English) on 
Bouchareb’s body of work. The director’s films are remarkably varied in 
their themes, formal elements, and narrative settings, from Senegal, 
England, Vietnam, and Algeria, to France, Belgium, Turkey, and the 
United States. While diverse in many ways, Bouchareb’s films are also 
linked by certain key concerns: the mixing of cultures, engagement with 
contemporary political issues and debates, immigration, and identity, 
among others. The director achieved national and international 
recognition for Indigènes/Days of Glory (2006) and Hors-la-loi/Outside 
the Law (2010), which both examine France’s colonial ties to North 
Africa, yet Bouchareb’s cinematic corpus extends well beyond this 
framework, and the full range of it has not been considered at length. 
In addition, Bouchareb’s work as a producer is an important yet often 
overlooked part of his career that merits critical attention.


We invite abstracts (~300 words) for essays on the work and career of 
Rachid Bouchareb to be published as part of an edited volume in the 
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus series (series editors are Robert 
Singer, Ph.D. and Gary D. Rhodes, Ph.D.). The volume seeks to highlight 
connections between Bouchareb’s films, with a special emphasis on his 
lesser-known and understudied films (such as his shorts and 
made-for-television films), to explore key influences on his output, 
consider theoretical approaches to his work, and shed new light on 
well-known films like Indigènes and Hors-la-loi.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Cinematic aesthetics and influences, including genres (road movies, 
film noir, spaghetti westerns, war films, gangster movies) and the work 
of other directors (such as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone)
-Interest in the United States: American landscapes, spaces, and 
cultures; American cinema
-Mapping Bouchareb: theoretical approaches and critical frameworks
-Transcultural/cross-cultural elements (American/African American 
cultures, others)
-Women and gender dynamics and/or female centered films
-Political engagement (in his films and with regard to his career more 
broadly)
-Use of space(s): cities/urban spaces, francophone and other spaces
-Water in Bouchareb’s work
-Use of the same actors/actresses in different films; relationship with 
his actors (such as Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem); 
collaborations with co-writers and co-producers (Jean Bréhat)
-Work as a producer (feature films, television)
-Projects outside of feature films and téléfilms, such as his 
collaborations with historian Pascal Blanchard (Frères d’armes – 50 
short films made to be diffused on television)
-Your Suggested Topic/Area of Interest

Essays that focus on films other than Indigènes and Hors-la-loi are 
particularly welcome.

Essays included in this refereed volume will be approximately 7,000 
words referenced in Chicago endnote style.
The deadline for abstracts (~300 words) is September 1. Please send 
abstracts and a short bio as a single attachment to both volume editors, 
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp and Michael Gott: (lkealhofer /at/ uri.edu) and 
(gottml /at/ ucmail.uc.edu). The essays would be due by May 1, 2019.













































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