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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona
Summary
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. -- .
