European Civil War films : memory, conflict, and nostalgia / Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosmidou, Eleftheria Rania, 1971- author.

Series:

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Routledge advances in film studies ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war in motion pictures.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Historical films--Europe--History and criticism.

Historical films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-25064-6

1-283-64327-8

0-203-10469-2

1-136-25065-4

9780203104699

OCLC:

812911572