Landscapes of Loss : The National Past in Postwar French Cinema /

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In this book, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. Observing that the sense of grandeur and destiny that once shaped French identity has eroded under the w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, Naomi, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Film.
Cinema et histoire > France > 1945- ...
Cinema et societe > France > 1945- ...
Cinema > France > 1990- ... > Histoire et critique.
Cinema > France > 1960-1990 > Histoire et critique.
Nationaal bewustzijn.
Historische films.
Historische motieven.
Filmkunst.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Nationalsozialismus
Geschichte
France au cinema.
Cinema > Aspect social > France.
Cinema > France > Histoire.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > France.
Motion pictures > France > History.
France > Au cinema.
Frankrijk.
Frankreich
France.
France > In motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Alain Resnais : the ghosts of history
  • Battles for memory : Vichy revisited
  • Bertrand Tavernier : history in the present tense
  • Memory and its losses : troubled dreams of empire
  • "A la recherche du temps perdu" : the specter of populism
  • Epilogue.

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