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Nationalism and the Cinema in France : Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995 / Hugo Frey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782383659
  • 9781782383666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43094409/034 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION From International ‘High Art’ to the Parisian Political Melee -- CHAPTER ONE The Cinema of Self-promotion: Patriotic Subtexts in ‘Films about Films’ -- CHAPTER TWO The Search for National Unity through History -- CHAPTER THREE The Representation of a Modern Chic People -- CHAPTER FOUR A Paradox in Anti-Americanism: Public Protest and Visual Ambiguity -- CHAPTER FIVE The Maintenance of Neocolonial Attitudes -- CHAPTER SIX The Persistence of Anti-Semitism -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Cinema and the Extreme Right-wing Undercurrent -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation’s sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case, examining national elitism, neo-colonialism, and other exclusionary discourses, as well as discussing for the first time the subculture of cinema around the extreme right Front National. Key works from directors such as Michel Audiard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, François Truffaut, and others provide a rich body of evidence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION From International ‘High Art’ to the Parisian Political Melee -- CHAPTER ONE The Cinema of Self-promotion: Patriotic Subtexts in ‘Films about Films’ -- CHAPTER TWO The Search for National Unity through History -- CHAPTER THREE The Representation of a Modern Chic People -- CHAPTER FOUR A Paradox in Anti-Americanism: Public Protest and Visual Ambiguity -- CHAPTER FIVE The Maintenance of Neocolonial Attitudes -- CHAPTER SIX The Persistence of Anti-Semitism -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Cinema and the Extreme Right-wing Undercurrent -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation’s sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case, examining national elitism, neo-colonialism, and other exclusionary discourses, as well as discussing for the first time the subculture of cinema around the extreme right Front National. Key works from directors such as Michel Audiard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, François Truffaut, and others provide a rich body of evidence.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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