Past forward [[electronic resource] ] : French cinema and the post-colonial heritage / / Dayna Oscherwitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781357103321
• Autore: Oscherwitz Dayna <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Carbondale [Ill.], : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-280-69681-8; 9786613673770; 0-8093-8588-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430944
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - France - History - 20th century; Historical films - France - History and criticism; National characteristics, French, in motion pictures; Imperialism in motion pictures; Collective memory - France
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes filmography.
• Nota di contenuto: Constructing memory : the history of heritage in France -- Family pictures : ancestry, nostalgia, and the French heritage film -- Heritage and its discontents : memory, history, and the expanding space of the past -- Memory's blind spots : immigration, integration, and the post-colonial heritage -- Recovered memories : diversity, history, and the expanding space of the past -- Conclusion : the fall of time and the rise of space from the post-colonial to the posthistorical.