Modernism, History and the First World War - Couverture souple

Tate, Trudi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719050006 ISBN 13 : 9780719050008

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassovitz and Djamel Bensalah. Her analyses compare the work of male and female, majority and minority film-makers, and emphasise the significance of authorship in the representation of gender and ethnicity. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and citizenship in a multicultural society. -- .

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Drawing upon medical journals, newspapers, propaganda, military histories, and other writings of the day, Modernism, History and the First World War reads such writers as Woolf, Hd, Ford, Faulkner, Kipling, and Lawrence alongside fiction and memoirs of soldiers and nurses who served in the war. This ground breaking blend of cultural history and close readings shows how modernism after 1914 emerges as a strange but important form of war writing, and was profoundly engaged with its own troubled history. Trudi Tate s a Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and author of The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory After the Armistice (2013). 'Essential reading for anyone interested in modernist fiction and war writing.'-Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University. 'This superb book opened up literary studies of the conflict to a range of issues and approaches that have since become crucial to the field'-Santanu Das, King's College London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719050006
• ISBN 13: 9780719050008
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible