French cinema and the Great War : remembrance and representation / / edited by Marcelline Block, Barry Nevin ; contributors, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns [and eight others]

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/658403
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war; War films - France - History and criticism; Motion pictures - France - History - 20th century; Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures; Collective memory - France
• Persona (resp. second.): BlockMarcelline; NevinBarry <1989->; Pagnoni BernsFernando Gabriel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 o
• Titolo autorizzato: French cinema and the Great War
• ISBN: 1-4422-6098-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814329503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Film and History