Alain Brossat is a philosophy professor. He is the author of Les Tondues, un carnaval moche (The shaved women, an ugly carnival) (Hachette Pluriel, 1993), L’Épreuve du désastre, le XXe siècle et les camps (The ordeal of the disaster, the 20th century and the camps) (Albin Michel, 1996), La Démocratie immunitaire (Democracy as immunity) (La Dispute, 2003), Autochtone imaginaire, étranger imaginé (Imaginary autochtone, imagined foreigner) (Éditions du Souffle, 2013), Abécédaire Foucault (An ABC of Foucault) (Demopolis, 2015) and numerous articles on cinema, in particular political forms and figures in film.