Visibility, speech and disembodiment in Jacques Panijel’s Octobre à Paris

• Published in: French cultural studies Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 360 - 370
• Main Author: Sharpe, Mani
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2017
• Subjects: visibility; 17 October 1961; speech; censorship; disembodiment; Algerian War; documentary

Octobre à Paris (1961) was a clandestine documentary executed after one of the most notorious yet occulted state massacres in French history, conducted after approximately 20–30,000 Algerians had flooded the streets of Paris in order to protest against police persecution. In existing scholarship on...