This book examines the way in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Filmmakers examined include Trueba, Cuerda, Loach, Jordan, Kusturica, Dragojevi¿, and Angelopoulos.

Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou is Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Salford, UK.

1. Introduction 2. Collective and Cultural Memory and their Limitations: Postmemory and Cinematic Modes of Representations 3. The Spanish Civil War: Cinematic Postmemories of the 'Last Great Cause' 4. Cinematic Representations of the Irish Civil War: Michael Collins and The Wind That Shakes the Barley 5. Cinematic Representations of the Former Yugoslavian Civil War: Underground and No Man's Land 6. Representation of the Greek Civil War in Theo Angelopoulos's The Travelling Players: The Uses of Intertextuality 7. Conclusion