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The legacy of World War II in European arthouse cinema

Title: The legacy of World War II in European arthouse cinema / Samm Deighan.
Author: Deighan, Samm, 1983-
Publication: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

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Description

viii, 229 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

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"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.

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.

Call Number

MFL 21-3266

ISBN

9781476683522
1476683522

LCCN

2021019251

OCLC

1247839892

Author

Deighan, Samm, 1983- author.

Title

The legacy of World War II in European arthouse cinema / Samm Deighan.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

MFL 21-3266

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