TY  - GEN
T1  - Landscapes of loss : the national past in postwar French cinema
A1  - Greene, Naomi, 1942-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn700688602
AB  - In this book, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. Observing that the sense of grandeur and destiny that once shaped French identity has eroded under the weight of recent history, Greene examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s, the Vichy era, decolonization, the collapse of ideologies. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of films and directors, she shows how postwar films have reflected contemporary concerns even as they have created images and myths that have helped determine the contours of French memory. This study of the intricate links between French history, memory, and cinema begins by examining the long shadow cast by the Vichy past, and shifting political and historical perspectives toward the nation's more distant past, which also emerged in these years. Finally, the mood of nostalgia and melancholy that appears to haunt contemporary France is analyzed in the context of films about the nation's imperial past as well as those that hark back to a "golden age," a remembered paradis perdu, of French cinema itself.
OP  - 243
CN  - PN1993.5.F7G72 1999
SN  - 9781400823048
SN  - 1400823048
SN  - 1400811856
SN  - 9781400811854
SN  - 9780691029597
SN  - 0691029598
SN  - 9780691004754
SN  - 0691004757
SN  - 1282753703
SN  - 9781282753709
SN  - 9786612753701
SN  - 6612753706
KW  - Motion pictures : France : History.
KW  - Motion pictures : Social aspects : France.
KW  - France : In motion pictures.
KW  - Cinéma : France : Histoire.
KW  - Cinéma : Aspect social : France.
KW  - France au cinéma.
KW  - ART : Film & Video.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures : Social aspects
KW  - France
KW  - Film
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Nationalsozialismus
KW  - Vergangenheitsbewältigung
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Filmkunst.
KW  - Historische motieven.
KW  - Historische films.
KW  - Nationaal bewustzijn.
KW  - Frankrijk.
KW  - Cinéma : France : 1960-1990 : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Cinéma : France : 1990- ... : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Cinéma et société : France : 1945- ...
KW  - Cinéma et histoire : France : 1945- ...
KW  - France : Au cinéma.
KW  - History
ER  -