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Cinéma et histoire
Cinema and history (book in French and English)
Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Gilles Menegaldo
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Book Presentation:
Introduction / M. Stokes, G. Menegaldo --
Atavistic futures : The time machine (1960) and history / J. Bignell --
History and typology in Demille's Ten commandments (1923) : history as an explanation of the present and a prophecy of the future in A modern story / R. Costa de Beauregard --
A vindication of anachronism : Peter Watkins's Culloden (1964) / N. Cloarec --
Coney Island, scène primitive du cinéma new-yorkais : requiem pour un décor / P. Kruth --
Back to the future ou l'histoire selon Zemeckis / D. André --
Ken Loach historian : history, memory, autobiography / J.-F. Baillon --
"The dark side of the wartime experience"? : calling into question feminist film noir theory / C. Maury --
Histoire(s) sans paroles : figurations et défigurations de la Guerre de Sécession. Chickamauga de R. Enrico et The outlaw Josey Wales de Clint Eastwood / C. Chambost --
Containment et Guerre d'Indochine : le bal masqué des allégories dans les adaptations de The quiet American de Graham Greene (1955) / D. Robic-Diaz --
From history to cinema : avatars of the Zorro myth / E. Benjamin-Labarthe --
Le film d'horreur américain moderne ou "la fête qui tourne mal" Dionysos en 69 / F. Christol --
Le rôle des fragments historiques dans l'œuvre de David Lynch / Z. Baqué --
Panopticon soft : paradoxes réflexifs et imaginaires de l'histoire (The Truman show, Pleasantville, Ed TV et Groundhog Day) / D. Mellier --
Sleepy Hollow (1999) : the headless horseman, from history to myth / S. Gorgievski --
The rogue and the monarch : comparing historical reconstruction in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Michael Hytner's The madness of King George / J. Dupont --
Slavery, Amistad and the limits of screen history / M. Stokes --
La représentation de l'esclavage dans Planet of the apes et The brother from another planet / A. Crémieux --
The relevance of the orphan in two screen adaptations of Oliver Twist / L. Bouvard --
The nature of history in 1930s British documentary : visions of Ceylon or of Britain in Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon (1934) / E. de Cacqueray --
Between formula and national imaginary : Michael Collins (Ireland/USA, 1995) / A. Grunert --
Roman Christian films : étude d'un paradigme Quo Vadis / N. de Chambrun --
Looking backward : politics and history in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata / Y. Carlet --
Frankenheimer's Manchurian candidate : Cold War mutually assured destruction and Oedipal brainwashing / D. Warren --
Oliver Stone's JFK and Ralph Greenson's psychoanalysis of Marilyn : three theses on the synergy between history and mythology / A.J-J. Cohen --
The war genre in Britain during the Second World War / D. Sipière --
Re-imagining history :The silent village and Went the day well? / E. Von Kassel Siambani --
La force du stéréotype : Adolf Hitler dans les séries B d'une Amérique en guerre / E. Dulac --
The Blitzwolf and other stories : when Tex Avery is taking fun care of history / P. Floquet --
"Je ne fais que tenir un miroir et la réalité prend place" : Steven Spielberg et le miroir de l'histoire / A. Baron-Carvais --
Naissance d'un genre : le film de gangster à Hollywood au temps du muet (1912-1927) / G. Menegaldo --
Turn back the clock : innovation and regression in the retro film / P. Starfield --
La résurgence du road movie en 1984 : Stranger than paradise et Paris, Texas / A. Hurault-Philippe --
La "guerre" d'Hollywood contre la télévision : l'innovation technologique et l'expérience cinématographique dans les années 50 / K. Kitsopadinou --
L'importance prise par le genre "blockbuster" dans la production des Majors américaines lors de ces dernières années / N. Dupont.
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