TY - BOOK AU - Frey,Hugo TI - Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995 SN - 9781782383659 U1 - 791.43094409/034 23/eng/20230216 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Motion pictures KW - History KW - 20th century KW - France KW - Political aspects KW - Nationalism in motion pictures KW - Patriotism in motion pictures KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh KW - Film and Television Studies, History: 20th Century to Present N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782383666 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782383666 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782383666/original ER -