Alain Resnais (French Film Directors) [Hardcover]

Emma Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Series: French Film Directors | Publication Date: April 27, 2006

Alain Resnais, director of Hiroshima Mon Amour and L'Année Derniere à Marienbad, has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating new introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais's films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond.

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Photography and memory in Mexico traces the ‘life stories’ of some of the famous photographic images made during the 1910 revolution, which have been repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in its aftermath. Which photographs have become icons of the revolution and why these particular images and not others? What is the relationship between photography and memory of the conflict? How do we construct a critical framework for addressing the issues raised by iconic photographs? Placing an emphasis on the life, afterlife and also the pre-life of those iconic photographs that haunt the post-revolutionary landscape, Andrea Noble approaches them as dynamic objects, where their rhetorical power is derived from a combination of their visual eloquence and their ability to coordinate patterns of identification with the memory of the revolution as a foundational event in Mexican history. Disseminated in the illustrated press during the revolution, these referential images provided their contemporary viewers with knowledge about the conflict that was unfolding around them. Often overlooked by historians, they continue to bring us ‘news’ from a distant time and place, even as they circulate today across contemporary media technologies. By bringing these ubiquitous objects into focus, Photography and memory in Mexico reflects more broadly on what their biographies can tell us about Mexican cultural memory and identity in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Including over 40 illustrations, this book will be of interest to all those interested in photography, memory studies, and Mexican cultural history. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Emma Wilson is Reader in Contemporary French Literature and Film at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Manchester University Press (April 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719064066
• ISBN-13: 978-0719064067
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,253,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)