French Cinema and the Great War : Remembrance and Representation.

By:

Block, Marcelline

Contributor(s):

Nevin, Barry

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Film and History SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442260986

Subject(s):

War films - France - History and criticism

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: French Cinema and the Great WarDDC classification:

791.43/658403

LOC classification:

D522.23.F74 2016

Online resources:

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Recording and Remembering theGreat War -- 1 Germaine Dulac's Le Cinéma au service de l'histoire (1935) -- 2 War Changes Everything -- 3 An Anti-Archive of World War I -- 4 Expressing Pacifist Views through the Recovery of World War I's Silenced Voices in Jean-Jacques Annaud's La victoire en chantant (1976), Bertrand Tavernier's Capitaine Conan (1996), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) -- II: Women at the Front -- 5 Unexpected Heroines in French and American Patriotic War Films -- 6 Women's Voices, Memory, and the War -- 7 "Love and Nothing But"* in La Vie et rien d'autre (Bertrand Tavernier, 1989) and Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, 2005) -- III: Interrogating Commemoration: Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) -- 8 "Une mémoire de pierre" -- 9 Re-membering the War -- 10 The French Aristocracy at War in La Grande Illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939) -- 11 "Un homme lui, un héros!" -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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