French cinema and the Great War : remembrance and representation /

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Even a century after its conclusion, the devastation of the Great War still echoes in the work of artists who try to make sense of the political, moral, ideological, and economic changes and challenges it spawned. This volume provides the first book-length study of World War I as it is featured in F...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Block, Marcelline (Editor ), Nevin, Barry, 1989- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Colección:Film and history.
Temas:
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war.
War films > France > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > France > History > 20th century.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
Collective memory > France.
Films de guerre > France > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Traumatisme psychique au cinéma.
Culture au cinéma.
Mémoire collective > France.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Collective memory
Culture in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
War and motion pictures
War films
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Great War: history and memory / Marcelline Block and Barry Nevin
  • Recording and remembering the Great War.
  • Germaine Dulac's Le cinéma au service de l'histoire (1935): World War I and the French newsreel / Maryann De Julio
  • War changes everything: the reality of illusion and investitures of power in Thomas l'imposteur (1965) and Le Roi de coeur (1966) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
  • An anti-archive of World War I: Philippe de Broca's Le Roi de coeur (1966) / Phillip John Usher
  • Expressing pacifist views through the recovery of World War I's silenced voices in Jean-Jacques Annaud's La victoire en chantant (1976), Bertrand Tavernier's Capitaine Conan (1996), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) / Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoàng
  • Women at the front.
  • Unexpected heroines in French and American patriotic war films: Une page de gloire (1915) and The little American (1917) / Clémentine Tholas-Disset
  • Women's voices, memory, and the war: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) / Karen A. Ritzenhoff
  • "Love and nothing but"* in La Vie et rien d'autre (Bertrand Tavernier, 1989) and Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, 2005) / Marcelline Block
  • Interrogating commemoration: Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937).
  • "Une mémoire de pierre": spaces of memory and grammars of remembrance in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illustion (1937) / William Kidd
  • Re-membering the war: masculinity and the wounded body in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) / Julie M. Powell
  • The French aristocracy at war in La Grand Illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939) / Frederic Leveziel
  • "Un homme lui, un héros!": commemorating the World War I veteran in the work of Jean Renoir / Barry Nevin.

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