European civil war films : memory, conflict, and nostalgia / Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou.
This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in film studies ;
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| Summary: | This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Many of the films present an idealized past that glosses over the reality of these civil wars, at times producing a nostalgic discourse of loss and longing. Other films engage with the past in a melancholic fas. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136250651 1136250654 9780203104699 1283643278 9781283643276 0203104692 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |