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War, revolution and remembrance in world cinema : critical essays /

"Two World Wars engulfed Europe, Asia and the United States, leaving indelible scars on the landscape and survivors. The trauma of civil wars in Spain (declared) and Latin America (tacit) spanned decades yet, contradictorily, bind parties together even today. Civil wars still haunt Africa where...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Membrez, Nancy J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
Subjects:
Memory in motion pictures.
Collective memory and motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Violence in motion pictures.
War films > History and criticism.
War films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: War and remembrance in world cinema / Nancy J. Membrez
  • Children of the Shoah : the Holocaust through youthful lenses / Steven G. Kellman
  • Remembering exile : Jews in the American dystopia in Axel Corti's Santa Fé / Christopher J. Wickham
  • The past trapped in amber : Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) à la mode retro / Ewa Barbara Luczak
  • Une affaire de femmes (story of women, Chabrol, 1988) : profile of an abortionist executed under the Vichy regime / Mary E. McCullough
  • Staging childhood : memories of shattered youth in Carlos Saura's ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990) and Emilio Aragón's Pájaros de papel (Paper Birds, 2010) / María Elena Soliño
  • War and social positioning in El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) and El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) (Del Toro, 2001, 2006) : between the imaginary and the self / Mónica Cantero-Exojo
  • El espíritu de la colmena (The spirit of the beehive, Erice, 1973) revisited / Nancy J. Membrez
  • Memorama of muerte de un ciclista (Death of a cyclist, Bardem, 1955) / Nancy J. Membrez
  • Olga (Monjardim, 2004) : a Brazilian film about a Holocaust heroine-martyr / Ann Helen Wainer
  • In search of the father : forgetting and autofiction in two Argentine documentaries : El (im)posible olvido (Impossible to Forget, Habegger, 2016) and El padre (The Father, Arruti, 2016) / Natalia Ruiz-Rubio, translated by Nancy J. Membrez
  • The burden of violence in Ciro Guerra's La sombra del caminante (Wandering shadows, 2004) / Rebecca Stephanis
  • The centenary of the Mexican revolution on film : Salvador Toscano and a host of others / Aurelio de los Reyes ; translated by Nancy J. Membrez
  • Colonial legacy : The roots of raíces (Alazraki, 1953) / Nancy J. Membrez
  • The Mexican revolution reloaded : Este es mi reino (This is my kingdom, 2010), a short film by Carlos Reygadas / Sebastião Guilherme Albano, translated by Nancy J. Membrez
  • From Havana back to the source : the decaying city as a character in the films of the Cuban Revolution / Hugo García González, translated by Nancy J. Membrez
  • The 60th anniversary of parallel worlds : Cuban cinema since the revolution / Nancy J. Membrez
  • Remembrance or revenge? : representations of violent death in Fanta Régina Nacro's The night of truth (2004) and Wanuri Kahiu's From a whisper (2008) / Joya F. Uraize
  • Never again! : documenting and remembering the Rwanda genocide (1994) on Film / Antoinette F. Winstead
  • An interview with the director of the Cineteca Nacional de México National (Cinemateque of Mexico) / Sebastião Guilherme Albano, translated by Nancy J. Membrez
  • A chat with Brazilian screenwriter-Director Lúcia Murat about violence in her films / Sebastião Guilherme Albano, translated by Nancy J. Membrez
  • The importance of historical memory : an interview with Spanish film director and cinematographer Almudena Carracedo / Nancy J. Membrez.