Remembering the Occupation in French Film National Identity in Postwar Europe

Name: Remembering the Occupation in French Film National Identity in Postwar Europe
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ISBN: 9780230601307

ISBN-10: 0230601308

ISBN-13: 9780230601307

Edition: 2008

Authors: Leah D. Hewitt, Leah Dianne Hewitt

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When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. Remembering the Occupation in French Film explores French identity as it is articulated through cultural representations of Occupied France in French film.nbsp; This work shows how French film has allowed for a public airing of current concerns through the lens of memory’s recreations of the Occupation.nbsp; By focusing on the representation of women as the symbol of a collective identity crisis, the author links France’s traditional female icon, Marianne, to the multiple unresolved ambiguities that have continued to plague France’s…

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List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 4/9/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Film as Memory: A Battleground for Shaping Identity



Transitions Before the "Sorrow": Criticism and Myth in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s



Identity Politics in Films of the 1970s



Occupational Performances in Truffaut's: The Last Metro



Ambiguous National Icons in Chabrol's: Story of Women



Love Stories, Real/Cinematic Heroines, the Postmoderns: The 1980s and Beyond



In Lieu of a Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index