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French and Francophone Cinema as Testimony: Narrating For-The-Other After Mass Trauma

by Andrew Jones
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781835538685
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: USD 160.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 708 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / French

Grappling with how to live together after mass trauma, this book argues that cinema--as philosophy and as history--can aesthetically construct each and every one of its spectators as responsible agents of a present fully informed by the traumas of the past. Inspired by Emmanuel Levinas's notion of testimony as the expression of the subject's responsibility for the other, this new testimonial genre of cinema, narrating for-the-other, emerges from the close analysis of a constellation of French-language films that form memories into arguments against totalitarian systems. These films include Le silence de la mer (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949), Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976), La Noire de... (Ousmane Sembene, 1966), Moi, un Noir (Jean Rouch, 1958), Trahir (Radu Mihăileanu, 1993), and Goulag (H�l�ne Ch�telain and Iossif Pasternak, 2000). Within contexts of extreme violence and oppression, these cinematic narratives reinscribe a unique subject who by definition bears an irreducible responsibility for the hatred, suffering, and injustice inflicted upon the other. By bringing into dialogue the Holocaust, colonialism, and the Gulag, this French and Francophone approach to memory mobilizes the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of testimony as a transnational response to 20th century trauma.

Jones, Andrew: - Andrew Jones is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Ursinus College.

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