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Dichtkunst --- Engelse letterkunde --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature polonaise --- Poolse letterkunde --- Poésie --- English poetry --- World War, 1939-1945 --- War poetry, English --- Comparative literature --- Myth in literature --- War in literature --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- English and Polish --- Polish and English --- English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism --- World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain - Literature and the war --- War poetry, English - History and criticism --- Comparative literature - English and Polish --- Comparative literature - Polish and English --- Guerre dans la litterature

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While filmic representations of 'enemies' are legion, film studies have so far neglected the way in which filmic mediations of enemy images have contributed to shaping cultural memories. The present volume investigates the (de)(re)constructions of enemy images in international film since the 1970s. The three parts deal with (re)configurations of the enemy in contemporary global cinemas, analysing films on the two world wars, on regional military conflicts, ethnic, racial and gender conflicts, socio-political conflicts and forms of terrorism. The essays concentrate on film aesthetics and contemporary (geo)politics, on filmic renderings of identity crises caused by troubled national pasts, and on the way films explore the collective psychological mechanisms at play in the construction, perpetuation or problematizing of enemy images. The volume aims to show how in spite of the diversity of national cinemas, moving images are constitutive of national collectivities by rendering conflicts involving an external or internal enemy as the defining points in national or communal histories. It also points out how the dynamics of internalism and exteriority (of 'we' and 'they') has proved vital in this process.     

Enemies in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Film. --- cultural memory. --- enemy images. --- war.

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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960's until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature, Modern --- Collective memory and literature. --- War films --- Collective memory and motion pictures. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Motion pictures and collective memory --- Literature and collective memory --- Motion pictures --- Literature --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Collective memory and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war --- War films - History and criticism --- Collective memory and motion pictures --- World War I. --- cultural memory. --- war film. --- war literature.

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The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

World War, 1914-1918 --- British literature and film. --- War Writing. --- World War I. --- Literature and the war. --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Civilization

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