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Past forward : French cinema and the post-colonial heritage /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oscherwitz, Dayna, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > France > History > 20th century.
Historical films > France > History and criticism.
National characteristics, French, in motion pictures.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Collective memory > France.
Table of Contents:
  • Constructing memory : the history of heritage in France
  • Family pictures : ancestry, nostalgia, and the French heritage film
  • Heritage and its discontents : memory, history, and the expanding space of the past
  • Memory's blind spots : immigration, integration, and the post-colonial heritage
  • Recovered memories : diversity, history, and the expanding space of the past
  • Conclusion : the fall of time and the rise of space from the post-colonial to the posthistorical.