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Author Oscherwitz, Dayna, 1970-

Title Past forward : French cinema and the post-colonial heritage / Dayna Oscherwitz.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Constructing memory : the history of heritage in France -- Family pictures : ancestry, nostalgia, and the French heritage film -- Heritage and its discontents : memory, history, and the expanding space of the past -- Memory's blind spots : immigration, integration, and the post-colonial heritage -- Recovered memories : diversity, history, and the expanding space of the past -- Conclusion : the fall of time and the rise of space from the post-colonial to the posthistorical.
Summary In Past Forward: French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage, author Dayna Oscherwitz focuses on the world of French films with a new lens. Drawing upon a wealth of research and the examination of popular French movies, Oscherwitz offers fresh perspectives not only on the unique importance of motion pictures and their indelible influence on French character, but on current debates regarding individual and collective memory. Past Forward traces the development and ascension of the French heritage film--those historical and costume dramas focusing on prestigious French subjects, events, and settings.
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Subject Motion pictures -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Historical films -- France -- History and criticism.
Historical films.
National characteristics, French, in motion pictures.
National characteristics, French, in motion pictures.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Collective memory -- France.
Collective memory.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Oscherwitz, Dayna, 1970- Past forward. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010 9780809329960 (DLC) 2009052300 (OCoLC)489014419
ISBN 9780809385881 (electronic book)
0809385880 (electronic book)
9780809329960
0809329964