03174oam 2200661I 450 991046195310332120200520144314.01-283-64327-80-203-10469-21-136-25065-410.4324/9780203104699 (CKB)2670000000259405(EBL)1039326(OCoLC)812911572(SSID)ssj0000757886(PQKBManifestationID)11413954(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757886(PQKBWorkID)10758927(PQKB)10273805(MiAaPQ)EBC1039326(Au-PeEL)EBL1039326(CaPaEBR)ebr10611656(CaONFJC)MIL395577(EXLCZ)99267000000025940520180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEuropean Civil War films memory, conflict, and nostalgia /Eleftheria Rania KosmidouNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (207 p.)Routledge advances in film studies ;18Routledge advances in film studies ;18Description based upon print version of record.1-138-65416-7 0-415-52320-6 Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index.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.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 fasRoutledge Advances in Film StudiesCivil war in motion picturesCollective memoryEuropeHistorical filmsEuropeHistory and criticismElectronic books.Civil war in motion pictures.Collective memoryHistorical filmsHistory and criticism.791.43/6581Kosmidou Eleftheria Rania1971-,981146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461953103321European Civil War films2239389UNINA