| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 180 pages) |
| Series |
Film and history |
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Film and history
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| Contents |
Introduction: the Great War: history and memory / Marcelline Block and Barry Nevin -- Recording and remembering the Great War. -- Germaine Dulac's Le cinéma au service de l'histoire (1935): World War I and the French newsreel / Maryann De Julio -- War changes everything: the reality of illusion and investitures of power in Thomas l'imposteur (1965) and Le Roi de coeur (1966) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- An anti-archive of World War I: Philippe de Broca's Le Roi de coeur (1966) / Phillip John Usher -- Expressing pacifist views through the recovery of World War I's silenced voices in Jean-Jacques Annaud's La victoire en chantant (1976), Bertrand Tavernier's Capitaine Conan (1996), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) / Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoàng -- Women at the front. -- Unexpected heroines in French and American patriotic war films: Une page de gloire (1915) and The little American (1917) / Clémentine Tholas-Disset -- Women's voices, memory, and the war: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) / Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- "Love and nothing but"* in La Vie et rien d'autre (Bertrand Tavernier, 1989) and Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, 2005) / Marcelline Block -- Interrogating commemoration: Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937). -- "Une mémoire de pierre": spaces of memory and grammars of remembrance in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illustion (1937) / William Kidd -- Re-membering the war: masculinity and the wounded body in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) / Julie M. Powell -- The French aristocracy at war in La Grand Illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939) / Frederic Leveziel -- "Un homme lui, un héros!": commemorating the World War I veteran in the work of Jean Renoir / Barry Nevin |
| Summary |
Even a century after its conclusion, the devastation of the Great War still echoes in the work of artists who try to make sense of the political, moral, ideological, and economic changes and challenges it spawned. This volume provides the first book-length study of World War I as it is featured in French cinema, from the silent era to contemporary films. Presented in three thematic sections-Recording and Remembering the Great War, Women at the Front, and Interrogating Commemoration-the essays in this volume explore the ways in which French film contributes to the restoration and modification o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
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War films -- France -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Collective memory -- France
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Collective memory
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Culture in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Psychic trauma in motion pictures
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War and motion pictures
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War films
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Block, Marcelline, editor
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Nevin, Barry, 1989- editor.
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| LC no. |
2021677123 |
| ISBN |
9781442260986 |
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144226098X |
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