European Civil War films : memory, conflict, and nostalgia / / Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
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| Autore: |
Kosmidou Eleftheria Rania <1971-, >
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| Titolo: |
European Civil War films : memory, conflict, and nostalgia / / Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6581 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civil war in motion pictures |
| Collective memory - Europe | |
| Historical films - Europe - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | European Civil War films |
| ISBN: | 1-283-64327-8 |
| 0-203-10469-2 | |
| 1-136-25065-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461953103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge Advances in Film Studies