World Cinema and Cultural Memory

Inez Hedges is the author of several books on cinema and culture that cover a wide range of 20th- and 21st-century issues, including the legacy of surrealism, the transformations of the Faust legend, and the role of cinema in peoples' on-going struggles for dignity and identity. She is Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Northeastern University.

Introduction 1. Living Memory: Representations Of Drancy 2. Amnesiac Memory: Hiroshima In Japanese Film 3. Convulsive Memory: The Spanish Civil War And Post-Franco Spain 4. Performative Memory: The Nakba And The Construction Of Identity In Palestinian Film 5. Radical Memory: Négritude, Anti-Colonial Struggles, And Cabral's 'Return To The Source' 6. Obstinate Memory: Chris Marker's And Patricio Guzmán's Pictures For A Revolution 7. Productive Memory: 'Forward Dreaming' In Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Cuban Films 8. Reclaimed Memory: Worker Culture In The Former GDR And Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics Of Resistance Conclusion Bibliography