Hewitt Remembering the Occupation in French film

National Identity in Postwar Europe
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61210-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in European Culture and History

When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hewitt, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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  Selective Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leah D. Hewitt is Professor of French at Amherst College and the author of Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig and Maryse Condé. She has also published essays on autobiography, postwar French films, the New Novel, and French Caribbean literature.