Days of Glory / Flanders: Emma Wilson on Two Prize-winning, Politically Ambitious French War Films
ABSTRACT Though the two films seem rather different—Bruno Dumont's Flanders dealing with an imaginary contemporary war, Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory concerned with forgotten incidents in World War II—the argument of this essay is that they share a sense, somewhat unusual among recent F...
Veröffentlicht in: | Film Quarterly. - University of California Press. - 61(2007), 1, Seite 16-22 |
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Film Quarterly |
Schlagworte: | war film Rachid Bouchareb Bruno Dumont French cinema film and history Political science Behavioral sciences Social sciences Education History |
Zusammenfassung: | ABSTRACT Though the two films seem rather different—Bruno Dumont's Flanders dealing with an imaginary contemporary war, Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory concerned with forgotten incidents in World War II—the argument of this essay is that they share a sense, somewhat unusual among recent French filmmakers, of the political power of cinema. |
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ISSN: | 15338630 |
DOI: | 10.1525/fq.2007.61.1.16 |