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Replaying history as farce: Postmodernism and the construction of Vichy in Delicatessen
Titel:
Replaying history as farce: Postmodernism and the construction of Vichy in Delicatessen
Auteur:
Hayes, Graeme
Verschenen in:
Modern & contemporary France
Paginering:
Jaargang 7 (1999) nr. 2 pagina's 197-207
Jaar:
1999-05
Inhoud:
In the 1990s, at the same time as political and intellectual debate in France has focused on the extent of collaboration in the Vichy period, a number of films have produced contrasting examinations of complicity and resistance during the German Occupation. This article concentrates on the construction of national identity through a reading of one such film, the critically and popularly acclaimed Delicatessen. It is argued that the domination of the film's narrative by pastiche and textual allusion is central to its production of a critical discourse on Vichy France, particularly through its representation of gender relationships and patriarchy. There are, however, important caveats. Firstly, that this discourse is de-centred, characterised by temporal confusion and displacement; and secondly, that it does tend to incoherence. It is perhaps this confusion which best typifies the anxieties of the contemporary cinema of the Occupation taken as a whole.
Uitgever:
Routledge
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
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