The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deighan, Samm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Europe--20th century--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

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

World War, 1939-1945.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Collective memory and motion pictures--Europe.

Collective memory and motion pictures.

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"World War II irrevocably shaped culture--and much of cinema--in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war. This book focuses on European films made about the war between 1945 and 1985 in countries that were occupied or invaded by the Nazis, such as Poland, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Germany itself. Many of these films were banned, censored, or sharply criticized at the time of their release for the radical ways they reframed the war and rejected the mythologizing of war experience as a heroic battle between the forces of good and evil. The particular films examined, made by arthouse directors like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Larisa Shepitko, among many more, deviate from mainstream cinematic depictions of the war and instead present viewpoints and experiences of WWII which are often controversial or transgressive. They explore the often-complicated ways that participation in war and genocide shapes national identity and the ways that we think about bodies and sexuality, trauma, violence, power, justice, and personal responsibility--themes that continue to resonate throughout culture and global politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Memories that scar

Collaboration and survival in Italian neo-realism

Memory beyond consolation : French cinema in the '50s

Out of the rubble : the emergence of new German cinema

French cinema in the '60s and the myth of resistance

Postwar perversion : Italian cinema in the '70s

The punishment begins : the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Pasolini's Salò and Nazisploitation

Innocent children and Kafkaesque doubles : Jewish identity in French cinema

Apocalyptic visions : the Holocaust on screen in Poland

The world gone mad : Czech and Slovak cinema

Ordinary fascism World War II films behind the Iron Curtain

Conclusion: The trauma of remembrance.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4766-4339-3

OCLC:

1256819461