The legacy of World War II in European arthouse cinema /

"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 invade...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Deighan, Samm, 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
Subjects:	Experimental films > Europe > 20th century > History and criticism. World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. Collective memory and motion pictures > Europe. Auteur theory (Motion pictures) PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism. HISTORY / Military / World War II. Collective memory and motion pictures. Experimental films. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures. War and motion pictures. Europe. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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.