1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003162870403321

Titolo

Power Structure Research / Edited by G. William Domhoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Beverly Hills : Sage, \c\\1980

ISBN

0-8039-1431-8

Descrizione fisica

268 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Sage focus editions ; 17

Disciplina

14230

19220

Locazione

SES

Collocazione

19220 DOM

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461953103321

Autore

Kosmidou Eleftheria Rania <1971-, >

Titolo

European Civil War films : memory, conflict, and nostalgia / / Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-64327-8

0-203-10469-2

1-136-25065-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 18

Disciplina

791.43/6581

Soggetti

Civil war in motion pictures

Collective memory - Europe

Historical films - Europe - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Collective and cultural memory and their limitations: postmemory and cinematic modes of representations -- The Spanish Civil War: cinematic postmemories of the "last great cause" -- Cinematic representations of the Irish Civil War: Michael Collins and The wind that shakes the barley -- Cinematic representations of the former Yugoslavian civil war: Underground and No man's land -- Representation of the Greek Civil War in Theo Angelopoulos's The travelling players: the uses of intertextuality -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Many of the films present an idealized past that glosses over the reality of these civil wars, at times producing a nostalgic discourse of loss and longing. Other films engage with the past in a melancholic fas