Casablanca: Movies and Memory
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Casablanca: Movies and Memory
By (Author) Marc Aug
Translated by Tom Conley
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st October 2009
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
791.4372
Physical Properties
Paperback
120
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 10mm
Description
Marc Aug was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on him. Like cinephiles everywhere, Aug was instantly drawn to Rick Blaine's mysterious past, his friendship with Sam and Captain Renault, and Ilsa's stirring, seductive beauty. The filmwith its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flightoccupies a significant place in Aug's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family. Marc Aug's elegant and thoughtful essay on film and the nature of both personal and collective memory contends that some of our most haunting memories are deeply embedded in the cinema.
Author Bio
Marc Aug, an anthropologist trained in French universities, has studied and written copiously on North African cultures. He teaches leading seminars at cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is author of many books, including La traverse du Luxembourg, Domaines et chteaux, Non-lieux: Introduction lanthropologie de la surmodernit, Un ethnologue dans le mtro, and Les formes de loubli. The English translations In the Metro and Oblivion have been published by the University of Minnesota Press.
