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Abd el-Krim's guerrilla war against Spain and France in North Africa: An adventure setting for screen melodramas

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  • Mevliyar Er
  • Paul B. Rich

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The Riffian rebel leader Mohammed Abd el-Krim Al-Khattabi (1882–1963) became an important early guerrilla leader by successfully initiating extensively organized resistance in the Moroccan Rif against Spanish and French imperial power in the early 1920s. The Rif War triggered a wave of adventure films since the 1930s. This article will look at some of these, especially Sergeant Klems (1971) and The Wind and the Lion (1975), and suggest that they can be seen in terms of the wider impact of screen Orientalism derived from the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean. The article will show that these films promoted what it terms a colonial gaze by underlining many stereotyped cinematic clichés relating to the Islamic cultural area and Abd el-Krim's revolt that stretch back to the early history of cinema.

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  • Mevliyar Er & Paul B. Rich, 2015. "Abd el-Krim's guerrilla war against Spain and France in North Africa: An adventure setting for screen melodramas," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 597-615, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fswixx:v:26:y:2015:i:4:p:597-615
    DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2015.1050847
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