Pettey / Unknown The films of Costa-Gavras

New perspectives
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4693-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

This collection provides new perspectives on the work of filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Contributors from a variety of fields examine his studies of human political crises, from the horrors of the Nazis and state totalitarianism to contemporary crises of immigration and global financial collapse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Pettey, Homer B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Costa-Gavras and microhistoriography: the case of Amen. (2002) – Homer B. Pettey
2 Un homme de trop (1967) and Section spéciale (1975): justice unravelled, a tale of two Frances (1941 and 1943) – Susan Hayward
3 Z (1969) and nationalism – Homer B. Pettey
4 The political efficacy of torture in The Confession (1970) – Hilary Neroni
5 Thriller and performance in State of Siege (1972) – Elizabeth Montes Garcés
6 What’s missing from Missing (1982) – Thomas Leitch
7 Selim Bakri’s quest for a Palestinian identity: Hanna K. (1983) and the Palestinian ‘permission to narrate’ – Matthew Abraham
8 Family Business (1986) and La Petite Apocalypse (1993) – Jennifer L. Jenkins
9 Betrayed (1988) and the ruptures of race and religion – Ian Scott
10 Music Box (1989): melodramatizing the Hungarian Holocaust – R. Barton Palmer
11 ‘Make humans the center of everything’: a cinema for conscious capitalism: Mad City (1997) and The Ax (2005) – Allen H. Redmon
12 Eden à l’Ouest (2009): border-crossing odyssey and comedy – Isolina Ballesteros
13 Representing the economy and neo-liberal subjectivity in Le Capital (2012) – Mark Bould
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona