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Revisiting the French Resistance in cinema, literature, bande dessinée, and television (1942-2012)
Fiction and ordinary heroes in the service of the nation
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"Explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how France's cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the 2French Resistance"--
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- Creator
- Christophe Corbin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 235 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781498582056, 1498582052, 9781498582070, 1498582079, 9781498582063, 9781498582063
- OCLC
- on1081385397
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Barbara--2012, titled Fiction and ordinary heroes in the service of the nation : a cultural history of the French Resistance .
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface : "the French Resistance explained to my grandchild" -- Introduction : how stories make history -- A tale of the nation : historical considerations and early filmic depictions -- Muses in arms : poetry and novels to save the "real France" (1940-1944) -- Fictions in defiance : historical allegories or "putting ideas across" (1942-1951) -- Laughing the war out : comic (relief) in films and bandes dessinées -- Dissenting voices : debunking the myth of resistant France -- Out of the shadow : invisibility and resurfacing of women in films and novels -- Stopping the pendulum mid-swing : the resistance on television in the 2000s -- Conclusion : veneration, suspicion, admiration