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Makes fresh sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. This book examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s and the Vichy era.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii I. Introduction 3 II. Alain Resnais: The Ghosts of History 31 III. Battles for Memory: Vichy Revisited 64 IV. Bertrand Tavernier: History in the Present Tense 98 V. Memory and Its Losses: Troubled Dreams of Empire 130 VI. A la recherche du temps perdu: The Specter of Populism 159 Epilogue 190 Notes 195 Index 227

Landscapes of Loss The National Past in Postwar

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/04/1999
      ISBN13: 9780691004754, 978-0691004754
      ISBN10: 0691004757
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      Book Synopsis
      Makes fresh sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. This book examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s and the Vichy era.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments vii I. Introduction 3 II. Alain Resnais: The Ghosts of History 31 III. Battles for Memory: Vichy Revisited 64 IV. Bertrand Tavernier: History in the Present Tense 98 V. Memory and Its Losses: Troubled Dreams of Empire 130 VI. A la recherche du temps perdu: The Specter of Populism 159 Epilogue 190 Notes 195 Index 227

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