Casablanca

by Auge, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780816656417
• ISBN10: 081665641X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-31
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Marc Auge was eleven or twelve years old when he first sawCasablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on him. Like cinephiles everywhere, Auge 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 Auge's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family.Marc Auge'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 fromCasablancathat 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,Casablancamoves between Auge'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.

Author Biography

Marc AugT, an anthropologist trained in French universities, has studied and written copiously on North African cultures. He teaches leading seminars at +cole des Hautes +tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is author of many books, including La traversTe du Luxembourg, Domaines et chGteaux, Non-lieux: Introduction a; l’anthropologie de la surmodernitT, Un ethnologue dans le mTtro, and Les formes de l’oubli. The English translations In the Metro and Oblivion have been published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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