European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

by Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

Book Overview

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 films present an idealized past that glosses over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415523206
• ISBN13: 9780415523202
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"