Landscapes of Loss
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Act of Violence
Aftermath of World War I
Aftermath of World War II
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Alain Resnais
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Algeria
Algerian War
Allusion
Andre Malraux
Annales School
Anti-Americanism
Assassination
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Bastille Day
Benjamin Stora
Camisard
Candide
Casque d'Or
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Censorship
Charles de Gaulle
Charlotte Corday
Claude Chabrol
Culture and Society
Decolonization
Dirk Bogarde
Disenchantment
Dreyfus affair
Edmond Rostand
Emile Zola
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Ernest Renan
Existentialism
Francois Mitterrand
Free France
Gilles Deleuze
Harold Pinter
Henry Rousso
Hiroshima mon amour
Holocaust denial
Iconoclasm
Ideology
Imperialism
Inception
Jacques Le Goff
James Wilkinson
Jean Cayrol
Jean Renoir
Jean Vigo
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jews
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Vacher
Jules Michelet
L'Histoire
La Grande Illusion
La Reine Margot (novel)
Lacombe
Last Year at Marienbad
Le Figaro
Le Monde
Leos Carax
Lucien
Malet
Marc Ferro
Marguerite Duras
Melodrama
Milice
Nazism
Newsreel
Outremer
Parody
Pied-Noir
Pierre Laval
Pierre Nora
Police action
Politique
Racism
Reprisal
Richard Grenier (newspaper columnist)
Ridicule
Robert Faurisson
Robert Paxton
Rootless cosmopolitan
Sacha Guitry
Serge Daney
Stavisky
Stavisky Affair
Superiority (short story)
The Last Metro
Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
Vichy France
Warfare
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691004754
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Landscapes of Loss, Naomi Greene makes new 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. Observing that the sense of grandeur and destiny that once shaped French identity has eroded under the weight of recent history, Greene examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s, the Vichy era, decolonization, the collapse of ideologies. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of films and directors, she shows how postwar films have reflected contemporary concerns even as they have created images and myths that have helped determine the contours of French memory. This study of the intricate links between French history, memory, and cinema begins by examining the long shadow cast by the Vichy past: the repressed memories and smothered unease that characterize the cinema of Alain Resnais are seen as a kind of prelude to a fierce battle for national memory that marked so-called retro films of the 1970s and 1980s.
The shifting political and historical perspectives toward the nation's more distant past, which also emerged in these years, are explored in the light of the films of one of France's leading directors, Bertrand Tavernier. Finally, the mood of nostalgia and melancholy that appears to haunt contemporary France is analyzed in the context of films about the nation's imperial past as well as those that hark back to a "golden age," a remembered paradis perdu, of French cinema itself.
Naomi Greene is Professor Emeritus of French and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy (Princeton) and Antonin Artaud: Poet without Words (Simon & Schuster) and is the translator of Marc Ferro's Cinema and History (Wayne State University Press).
