Sophie BelotSophie T. Bélot is a Senior Lecturer in Film at St Mary's University, London. Her research interest focuses on contemporary French and Francophone cinema (mainly Algerian cinema). She is particularly interested in the object-subject dialectic in relaion to images of women and their bodies. She has published widely on this topic in the context of the Algerian War of Independence and the civil war as well as within auteur cinema. Her main approaches are interdisciplinary with an emphasis on philosophy. She is currently working on a monograph on the influence of cinema on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy (phenomenology) for Bloomsbury's Film Thinks Series. Read More Read Less