French Cinema and the Great War - Remembrance and Representation

Informationen zum Autor Marcelline Block is lecturer in history at Princeton University. She is the editor of Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema (2010) and author of World Film Locations: Paris (2011). Barry Nevin has lectured on realist cinema and film theory, the classic French cinema (1930-1960), and modern French history. His research on Renoir's pro-colonial propaganda will be published in Studies in French Cinema. Klappentext 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 of memories of the war. Films such as La Grande Illusion, King of Hearts, A Very Long Engagement, and Joyeux Noel are among those discussed in the volume's examination of the various ways in which film mediates personal and collective memories of this critical historical event.

Product details

• Authors: Marcelline Nevin Block
• Assisted by: Marcelline Block (Editor), Block Marcelline (Editor), Barry Nevin (Editor), Nevin Barry (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2016
• EAN: 9781442260979
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-6097-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Film and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; France, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism