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Cinema After Fascism
S. Craig
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Description for Cinema After Fascism
Paperback. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In this period of film, familiar structures of epistemology and historiography reappear as ghostly imprints on postwar celluloid, and the remnants of fascist subjectivity walk the streets of postwar cities. Through new perspectives on the films of Roberto Rossellini, Billy Wilder, Carol Reed, Alain Resnais, and Marguerite Duras, this book examines the ways in which filmmakers acknowledge the fascist past. Siobhan S. Craig reveals that the attempts to reconfigure the idioms of ... Read more
Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In this period of film, familiar structures of epistemology and historiography reappear as ghostly imprints on postwar celluloid, and the remnants of fascist subjectivity walk the streets of postwar cities. Through new perspectives on the films of Roberto Rossellini, Billy Wilder, Carol Reed, Alain Resnais, and Marguerite Duras, this book examines the ways in which filmmakers acknowledge the fascist past. Siobhan S. Craig reveals that the attempts to reconfigure the idioms of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
Series
Studies in European Culture and History
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349288236
SKU
V9781349288236
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About S. Craig
SIOBHAN S. CRAIG is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Reviews for Cinema After Fascism
" Cinema after Fascism is a major contribution to European Studies. The strengths of this book lie with its theoretical breadth, interdisciplinary scope, careful research, and original insights. Craig writes in a style that is beautiful, elegant, accessible, and overflowing with ideas." - Nora M. Alter, Professor, Film and Media Arts, Temple University and author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The ... Read more