War, Revolution and Remembrance in World Cinema

Critical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7607-4
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 677 g

Two World Wars engulfed Europe, Asia and the United States, leaving indelible scars on the landscape and survivors. The trauma of civil wars in Spain (declared) and Latin America (tacit) spanned decades yet, contradictorily, bind parties together even today. Civil wars still haunt Africa where, in more recent years, ethnic cleansing has led to wholesale genocide. Drawing on the emerging field of Memory Studies, this book examines narrative and documentary films, made far from Hollywood, that address memory--both traumatic and nostalgic--surrounding these conflicts, despite attempts by special interests to erase or manipulate history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Membrez, Nancy J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy J. Membrez is an associate professor of Spanish literature, culture, and Spanish/Latin American film as well as teaching film production at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She wrote the English subtitles for four Subiela films and produced three featurettes for the Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray of Man Facing Southeast. Her first feature film, Portrait in Sepia Tone, won Best Picture and Best Sound Track at the International Filmmakers' Film Festival in Kent, England in 2008.