Name: Casablanca: Movies and Memory
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Author: Marc Augé
ISBN: 9780816656417

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marc Augé

Publisher

Univ Of Minnesota Pr

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

ISBN

081665641X

ISBN13

9780816656417

Edition No.

Synopsis "Casablanca: Movies and Memory "

Marc Augé was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on him. Like cinephiles everywhere, Augé was instantly drawn to Rick Blaine's mysterious past, his friendship with Sam and Captain Renault, and Ilsa's stirring, seductive beauty. The film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Augé's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family.Marc Augé's elegant and thoughtful essay on film and the nature of both personal and collective memory contends that some of our most haunting memories are deeply embedded in the cinema. His own recollections of the hurried, often chaotic embarkations of his childhood, he writes, are become intertwined with scenes from Casablanca that have become bigger in his memory through repeated viewings in the movie houses of Paris's Latin Quarter.Seamlessly weaving together film criticism and memoir, Casablanca moves between Augé's insights into the filmgoing experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France's wartime history, and how such events as the fall of Paris, the exodus of refugees, and the Occupation-all depicted in the film-were lived and are remembered.

Marc Augé

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Renowned French anthropologist, coined the term "non-place" to refer to places of transience, interchangeable spaces where the human being is anonymous, such as means of transport, large hotel chains, supermarkets, and even refugee camps

He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, of which he was president from 1985 to 1995. He has also been responsible and director of various research projects at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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