Remembering the occupation in French film : national identity in postwar Europe / Leah D. Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hewitt, Leah Dianne.

Series:

Studies in European culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War and motion pictures.

France--In motion pictures.

France.

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

National characteristics, French.

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. Remembering the Occupation in French Film explores French identity as it is articulated through cultural representations of Occupied France in film. This work shows how French film has allowed for a public airing of current concerns through the lens of memory's recreations of the Occupation. By focusing on the representation of women as the symbol of a collective identity crisis. Hewitt links France's traditional female icon. Marianne, to the multiple unresolved ambiguities that have continued to plague France's historical reckoning with the war.

Contents:

1 Film as Memory: A Battleground for Shaping Identity 1

2 Transitions Before the "Sorrow": Criticism and Myth in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s 35

3 Identity Politics in Films of the 1970s 65

4 Occupational Performances in Truffaut's: The Last Metro 101

5 Ambiguous National Icons in Chabrol's: Story of Women 125

6 Love Stories, Real/Cinematic Heroines, the Postmoderns: The 1980s and Beyond 155

7 In Lieu of a Conclusion 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index.

ISBN:

0230601308

9780230601307

OCLC:

150256289

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