World cinema and cultural memory
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World cinema and cultural memory
（Palgrave Macmillan memory studies）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Living Memory: Representations Of Drancy 2. Amnesiac Memory: Hiroshima In Japanese Film 3. Convulsive Memory: The Spanish Civil War And Post-Franco Spain 4. Performative Memory: The Nakba And The Construction Of Identity In Palestinian Film 5. Radical Memory: Negritude, Anti-Colonial Struggles, And Cabral's 'Return To The Source' 6. Obstinate Memory: Chris Marker's And Patricio Guzman's Pictures For A Revolution 7. Productive Memory: 'Forward Dreaming' In Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Cuban Films 8. Reclaimed Memory: Worker Culture In The Former GDR And Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics Of Resistance Conclusion Bibliography
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