ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a range of alternative media practices, largely produced by Third Worldist and minoritarian filmmakers. One of the many Third Worldist films portraying independence struggles was Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, which, although directed by an Italian, is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Fanonian Third Worldism. Colonialism, for Fanon, is 'not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it. At the same time, it would be a mistake to idealize the sexual politics of The Battle of Algiers. The women in the film largely carry out the orders of the male revolutionaries. Barren Lives cinematizes the novel's third-person 'indirect free style', that is, a mode of discourse that begins in the third person and then quietly modulates into a more or less direct, but still third-person, presentation of a character's thoughts and feelings.
