Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces

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The strengths of Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces are manifold. Cinquegrani's concept is as intellectually stimulating as it is original, and his filmography (which includes many lesser-known films from many different traditions) is impressive [...] this excellent, provocative book should be on the reading list of everyone interested in film and memory. It realizes the promise of the 'spatial turn' in film studies, often brilliantly. Highly recommended -- Denise J. Youngblood * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * The strengths of Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces are manifold. Cinquegrani's concept is as intellectually stimulating as it is original, and his filmography (which includes many lesser-known films from many different traditions) is impressive [...] this excellent, provocative book should be on the reading list of everyone interested in film and memory. It realizes the promise of the 'spatial turn' in film studies, often brilliantly. Highly recommended. -- Denise J. Youngblood * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * Across the 20th century, cinema, documentaries, and amateur footage have deposited invisible layers of film over a wide range of human settlements.Maurizio Cinquegrani's?immaterial archaeological excavations across time and space make a novel contribution to our violent history by demonstrating how the moving image has shaped our collective imagination. At a difficult moment of our humanity, this is an important volume that should make us pay attention. -- Francois Penz, University of Cambridge Cinquegrani presents a highly original take on the relationship between history, memory and the moving image. Discussing eight key episodes from the twentieth century, from WWI to the fall of the Berlin Wall, he skilfully navigates between visual materials such as newsreels, TV footage, documentaries and Hollywood films. This book offers a bold new methodology for the analysis of film, history and memory studies. -- Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary University of London