- Title
- Looking (back) at the Moon in Parisian Cinema
- Creator
- Rolls, Alistair
- Relation
- Remembering Paris in Text and Film p. 92-107
- Publisher
- Intellect Books Ltd
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- In her discussion of what she dubs a ‘nostalgia wave’, which is to say, many films and television series of the second decade of our new millennium focusing on earlier decades of the twentieth century, and particularly the 1920s, 1 Katharina Niemeyer includes Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011). This wave, Niemeyer argues (2014: 2), is symptomatic of a ‘crisis of temporality’, a ‘twofold phenomenon’ (of progress but also of crisis) that is strongly reminiscent of the double movements of nineteenth-century Parisian poetics previously discussed in this volume. She describes these two parallel but opposed phenomena as ‘a reaction to fast technologies, despite using them, in desiring to slow down, and/or an escape from this crisis into a state of a wanderlust (Fernweh) and nostalgia (in the sense of Heimweh) that could be “cured”, or encouraged, by media use and consumption’ (2014: 2). As Dirk Gibb has demonstrated (2019: passim), films that capture these phenomena do not simply seek to respond allegorically to particular moments of crisis that the viewer is experiencing in the present of the viewing moment; they also stage a period in the past that is itself always already in the grip of this same twofold crisis.
- Subject
- moon gazing; French cinema; Parisian remembering; nostalgia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1477008
- Identifier
- uon:49907
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781789384185
- Language
- eng
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