Past forward
Subtitle: French cinema and the post-colonial heritage
By: Dayna Oscherwitz.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780809329960
Subjects: Motion pictures -- France -- History -- 20th century; Historical films -- France -- History and criticism; National characteristics, French, in motion pictures; Imperialism in motion pictures; Collective memory -- France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Constructing memory : the history of heritage in France; title: Family pictures : ancestry, nostalgia, and the French heritage film; title: Heritage and its discontents : memory, history, and the expanding space of the past; title: Memory's blind spots : immigration, integration, and the post-colonial heritage; title: Recovered memories : diversity, history, and the expanding space of the past; title: Conclusion : the fall of time and the rise of space from the post-colonial to the post-historical.