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Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present: National Identity in the Historical Films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda

Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present: National Identity in the Historical Films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda

Garbowski, Christopher
Kocur, Miroslaw

Hardcover

Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance, Book 10

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 3631730071
ISBN13: 9783631730072
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: May 31 2018
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The author analyzes appropriately selected historical films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda with respect to historical memory in relation to film. Cultural and moral foundations of national identity are also taken into account. Spielberg films particularly valuable for this comparative analysis are: Schindler's List , Amistad , Saving Private Ryan and Lincoln ; crucial Wajda films include: Korczak , Holy Week , Katyń and Walęsa . These works are analyzed in relation to the problem of representing the Holocaust, self-scrutiny in historical memory, commemoration of sacrifices for the national community during war, and foundation myths evoked through national heroes. The larger thematic framework for the above concerns is the underlying sense of covenant present within the two national communities that Spielberg and Wajda draw upon, a sense that explores the possibility of moral renewal under contemporary circumstances.

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