Landscapes of Loss: The National Past in Postwar French Cinema

by Naomi Greene

Book Overview

In Landscapes of Loss, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. Observing that the sense of grandeur and destiny that once shaped French identity has eroded under the weight of recent history, Greene examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691004757
• ISBN13: 9780691004754
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"