{"product_id":"casablanca-marc-aug-9780816656417","title":"Casablanca: Movies and Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarc Aug  was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Aug 's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc 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. His own recollections of the hurried, often chaotic embarkations of his childhood, he writes, are become intertwined with scenes from \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e that have become bigger in his memory through repeated viewings in the movie houses of Paris's Latin Quarter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly weaving together film criticism and memoir, \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e moves between Aug 's insights into the filmgoing experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France's wartime history, and how such events as the fall of Paris, the exodus of refugees, and the Occupation-all depicted in the film-were lived and are remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Augé\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081665641X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816656417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 265","brand":"Marc Augé","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072818409727,"sku":"9780816656417","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41b7cce0-cf69-48b5-b02c-0b7ecfd113d8.jpg?v=1685444109","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/casablanca-marc-aug-9780816656417","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}