Critical Review of Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask explores for the first time on film the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, “Black Skin, White Masks” and “The Wretched of the Earth”, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and Coloniser. Jean-Paul Sartre recognised Fanon as the figure "through whose voice the Third World finds and speaks for itself." This innovative film biography (Issac, Julien, …

…the nation and as a refusal to submit. This persistence in following forms of culture which are already condemned to extinction is already a demonstration of nationality; but it is a demonstration which is a throw-back to the laws of inertia. There is no taking of the offensive and no redefining of relationships. There is simply a concentration on a hard core of culture which is becoming more and more shrivelled up, inert and empty.”