1st Edition

European Civil War Films Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou Copyright 2013
206 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Many of the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Collective and Cultural Memory and their Limitations: Postmemory and Cinematic Modes of Representations  3. The Spanish Civil War: Cinematic Postmemories of the ‘Last Great Cause’  4. Cinematic Representations of the Irish Civil War: Michael Collins and The Wind That Shakes the Barley  5. Cinematic Representations of the Former Yugoslavian Civil War: Underground and No Man's Land  6. Representation of the Greek Civil War in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players: The Uses of Intertextuality  7. Conclusion

Biography

Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou is Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Salford, UK.

'...it is... an important contribution to the debate on memory, conflict, and nostalgia in the context of European war films. Making these rich and complex cinematic accomplishments accessible to a wider audience, Kosmidou’s work provides a valuable source of information for further exploration of the subject.' Agustín Rico-Albero, Council for European Studies