Landscapes of loss : the national past in postwar French cinema

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Landscapes of loss : the national past in postwar French cinema

Naomi Greene

Princeton University Press, c1999

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780691004754

内容説明

In Landscapes of Loss, 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: the repressed memories and smothered unease that characterize the cinema of Alain Resnais are seen as a kind of prelude to a fierce battle for national memory that marked so-called retro films of the 1970s and 1980s. The shifting political and historical perspectives toward the nation's more distant past, which also emerged in these years, are explored in the light of the films of one of France's leading directors, Bertrand Tavernier. 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.

目次

Acknowledgments vii I. Introduction 3 II. Alain Resnais: The Ghosts of History 31 III. Battles for Memory: Vichy Revisited 64 IV. Bertrand Tavernier: History in the Present Tense 98 V. Memory and Its Losses: Troubled Dreams of Empire 130 VI. A la recherche du temps perdu: The Specter of Populism 159 Epilogue 190 Notes 195 Index 227
巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780691029597

内容説明

This text puts a different perspective on the variety of post-war 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.The author examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past, such as the political battles of the 1930s, the Vichy era, decolonization, and the collapse of ideologies.The repressed memories and smothered unease that characterize the cinema of Alan Resnais are seen as a kind of prelude to a fierce battle for national memory that marked so-called reto films of the 1970s and 1980s. The shifting political and historical perspectives toward the nation's more distant past are explored in the light of the films of Bertrand Tavernier.Finally, the text explores the mood of nostalgia and melancholy that appaers to haunt contemporary France, in the light of the "golden age" and imperial past.

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