Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Jan 2002)

From War Films to Films on War: Gendered Scenarios of National Identity—The Case of The Last Metro

  • Leah D. Hewitt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1520
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 1

Abstract

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If France's ongoing struggle for self-definition in the late twentieth century involved new conceptions of citizenship and nationality, in short what it means to be French, this struggle also entailed the search for an accurate portrayal of a past in which France could recognize itself...