Tout film qui nous a plu un jour prend place dans notre mémoire au côté d'autres souvenirs. Il est un souvenir parmi d'autres, soumis comme eux à la menace de l'oubli. Il arrive ainsi que des images de films nous traînent dans la tête comme si elles faisaient partie de notre vie même... Il nous faut "monter" nos souvenirs, ces rushes de la mémoire, pour recomposer une continuité, pour en faire un récit. [...] Il y a deux ou trois ans, les heures d'insomnie m'étaient devenues l'occasion d'un type d'investigation un peu particulier. Je me lançais à la reconquête de mes plus vieux souvenirs, ceux d'avant 1940. Je collectais la nuit des lambeaux d'images et, le jour venu, courais chez ma mère pour la faire parler. [...] Je ne sais pas exactement quand j'ai vu Casablanca pour la première fois... M. A. Marc Augé, ethnologue et écrivain, a été président de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales entre 1985 et 1995. Il a publié au Seuil, dans " La Librairie du XXIe siècle ", Domaines et châteaux (1989), Non-lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité (1992) et La Guerre des rêves. Exercices d'ethno-fiction (1995).
"In late 1941, a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's made its way from the desk of Warner script reader Stephen Karnot to the office of producer Hal Wallis, who...
The classic movie "Casablanca" is a WW II story, made during WW II for WW II audiences and is loaded with very accurate WW II history which is fully explained in this book.
Casablanca
Translated by Donald A. Yates, Andrea Labinger, and Joanne M. Yates, this collection includes stories from two of Edgar Brau’s collections—El poema y otras historias and Tres cuentos—to bring to a fresh audience the very best new work ...
A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Selection “Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan will find in this delightful book new ways to love the movie they were certain they could never love more ...
In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, ...
Learn about the making of the film that changed the industry, and discover the stories of the actors and creators of the movie-many of whom were refugees from Hitler's oppression, lending authenticity to the film.
Blaine Williams has been obsessed by Casablanca since childhood.
Picking Up the Pieces from Portugal to Palestine: Quaker Refugee Relief in World War II. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 2004. EDITED DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS Bland, Larry I., and Sharon Ritenour Stevens, eds.
This book weaves together film criticism and memoir moving between the author’s insights into the film going experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France’s wartime history, and how such events as the ...