The Ghost of Grandeur: Home in French Cinema from Truffaut to Haneke

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Ghost of Grandeur

T2 - Home in French Cinema from Truffaut to Haneke

AU - Meiner, Carsten

PY - 2017/6

Y1 - 2017/6

N2 - Carsten Meiner analyses a series of classic French films, from Truffaut to Haneke, and their uses of the home with respect to the relation between grandeur and individuality. Homes thus become problematizing mediators between individuals and national grandeur, and together the films form a historical series of quite consistent albeit surprising articulations of the metabolism of life in national grandeur. This focus on the home leads to reflections on the problems of the idea of "represented nationalism" in cinema.

AB - Carsten Meiner analyses a series of classic French films, from Truffaut to Haneke, and their uses of the home with respect to the relation between grandeur and individuality. Homes thus become problematizing mediators between individuals and national grandeur, and together the films form a historical series of quite consistent albeit surprising articulations of the metabolism of life in national grandeur. This focus on the home leads to reflections on the problems of the idea of "represented nationalism" in cinema.

U2 - 10.1080/17406315.2017.1319531

DO - 10.1080/17406315.2017.1319531

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1740-6315

VL - 14

SP - 7

EP - 24

JO - Home Cultures

JF - Home Cultures

IS - 1

ER -