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Marc Augé - Casablanca: Movies and Memory - 9780816656417 - V9780816656417
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Casablanca: Movies and Memory

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Description for Casablanca: Movies and Memory Paperback. Translator(s): Conley, Tom. Num Pages: 120 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.

Marc Augé was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on him. Like cinephiles everywhere, Augé was instantly drawn to Rick Blaine's mysterious past, his friendship with Sam and Captain Renault, and Ilsa's stirring, seductive beauty. The film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Augé's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family.

Marc Augé's elegant and thoughtful essay on film and the nature of both personal and collective memory contends ... Read more

Seamlessly weaving together film criticism and memoir, Casablanca moves between Augé's insights into the filmgoing experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France's wartime history, and how such events as the fall of Paris, the exodus of refugees, and the Occupation-all depicted in the film-were lived and are remembered.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816656417
SKU
V9780816656417
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About Marc Augé
Marc Augé, an anthropologist trained in French universities, has studied and written copiously on North African cultures. He teaches leading seminars at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is author of many books, including La traversée du Luxembourg, Domaines et châteaux, Non-lieux: Introduction à l’anthropologie de la surmodernité, Un ethnologue dans le métro, and Les formes ... Read more

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