European Civil War Films

Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia (livre en anglais)

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de Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Genre > Films de guerre

Mots Clés

films de guerre, Europe

Année d'édition

2016

Editeur

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

1ere édition

2012

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 206 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN

978-1-138-65416-7

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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 fashion. These cinematic discourses articulate contemporary concerns, especially the loss of ideology and a utopian political horizon in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, a date that marks a significant break in European history and an accompanying paradigm shift in European cultural memory.

Filmmakers examined include Trueba, Cuerda, Loach, Jordan, Kusturica, Dragojević, and Angelopoulos.

À propos de l'auteur :
Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou is Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Salford, UK.

Revue de Presse :
'...it is... an important contribution to the debate on memory, conflict, and nostalgia in the context of European war films. Making these rich and complex cinematic accomplishments accessible to a wider audience, Kosmidou’s work provides a valuable source of information for further exploration of the subject.' Agustín Rico-Albero, Council for European Studies

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