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World Cinema and Cultural Memory I. Hedges

World Cinema and Cultural Memory By I. Hedges

World Cinema and Cultural Memory by I. Hedges


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Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.

World Cinema and Cultural Memory Summary

World Cinema and Cultural Memory by I. Hedges

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.

World Cinema and Cultural Memory Reviews

World Cinema and Cultural Memory is a treasure trove of evidence and analysis, providing a vital resource for anyone interested in changing the world. Its rich compendium of films from many parts of the world - some well known, others, undeservedly obscure - would alone make this book essential reading. ... Hedges deploys eight typologies of memory, each one associated with particular countries, bodies of cinematic or literary work, and those filmmakers, writers and political actors involved in carrying them out. (Mat Callahan, Socialism and Democracy, October, 2016)


About I. Hedges

Inez Hedges is the author of several books on cinema and culture that cover a wide range of 20th- and 21st-century issues, including the legacy of surrealism, the transformations of the Faust legend, and the role of cinema in peoples' on-going struggles for dignity and identity. She is Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Northeastern University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Living Memory: Representations Of Drancy 2. Amnesiac Memory: Hiroshima In Japanese Film 3. Convulsive Memory: The Spanish Civil War And Post-Franco Spain 4. Performative Memory: The Nakba And The Construction Of Identity In Palestinian Film 5. Radical Memory: Negritude, Anti-Colonial Struggles, And Cabral's 'Return To The Source' 6. Obstinate Memory: Chris Marker's And Patricio Guzman's Pictures For A Revolution 7. Productive Memory: 'Forward Dreaming' In Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Cuban Films 8. Reclaimed Memory: Worker Culture In The Former GDR And Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics Of Resistance Conclusion Bibliography

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NLS9781349499410
9781349499410
1349499412
World Cinema and Cultural Memory by I. Hedges
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-01-01
190
N/A
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