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Revisiting the French Resistance in cinema, literature, bande dessinée, and television (1942-2012)
- Title
- Revisiting the French Resistance in cinema, literature, bande dessinée, and television (1942-2012) / Christophe Corbin.
- Author
- Corbin, Christophe, 1974-
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 235 pages : illustration; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how France's cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the 2French Resistance"--
- Uniform Title
- Fiction and ordinary heroes in the service of the nation
- Alternative Title
- Fiction and ordinary heroes in the service of the nation
- Subjects
- France
- German Occupation of France (1940-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 > France > Television and the war
- War and motion pictures
- World War, 1939-1945 > France > Literature and the war
- War and television
- War and literature
- World War (1939-1945)
- History
- World War, 1939-1945 > France > Motion pictures and the war
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France
- France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945
- Underground movements, War
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Barbara--2012, titled Fiction and ordinary heroes in the service of the nation : a cultural history of the French Resistance .
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface : "the French Resistance explained to my grandchild" -- Introduction : how stories make history -- A tale of the nation : historical considerations and early filmic depictions -- Muses in arms : poetry and novels to save the "real France" (1940-1944) -- Fictions in defiance : historical allegories or "putting ideas across" (1942-1951) -- Laughing the war out : comic (relief) in films and bandes dessinées -- Dissenting voices : debunking the myth of resistant France -- Out of the shadow : invisibility and resurfacing of women in films and novels -- Stopping the pendulum mid-swing : the resistance on television in the 2000s -- Conclusion : veneration, suspicion, admiration.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8850
- ISBN
- 9781498582056
- 1498582052
- LCCN
- 2019004311
- OCLC
- 1081385397
- Author
- Corbin, Christophe, 1974- author.
- Title
- Revisiting the French Resistance in cinema, literature, bande dessinée, and television (1942-2012) / Christophe Corbin.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Other Form:
- Online version: Corbin, Christophe, 1974- author. Revisiting the French Resistance in cinema, literature, bande dessinée, and television (1942-2012) Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] 9781498582063 (DLC) 2019008212
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8850