Landscapes of Loss The National Past in Postwar French Cinema

Name: Landscapes of Loss The National Past in Postwar French Cinema
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ISBN: 9780691004754

ISBN-10: 0691004757

ISBN-13: 9780691004754

Edition: 1999

Authors: Naomi Greene

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InLandscapes of Loss,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 weight of recent history, Greene examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s, the Vichy era, decolonization, the collapse of ideologies. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of films and directors, she shows how postwar films have reflected contemporary concerns even as they have created images and…

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List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/18/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Index