Abstract
The French film, Army of Crime is a 2009 drama that sits in both categorisations of a Holocaust and a Resistance biopic. In order to tackle what the film, Army of Crime, does through its attempts to tell a Holocaust narrative within the representational 'frame' of a biopic, this chapter first engages with the moral and artistic dilemma of films about the Holocaust and about Resistance. Unlike many other war biopics, or biopics about resistance fighters during World War II and the Holocaust, Army of Crime seeks to tell a collective biopic of the Manouchian group. The chapter explores how Army of Crime complicates the notion of any singular category being applied to the biopic form and instead suggests that people must adopt a plural and layered approach to what these films can do ideologically and politically in the present via their representation of history and identity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Companion to the Biopic |
| Editors | Deborah Cartmell, Ashley D. Polasek |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Chapter | 11 |
| Pages | 191-208 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119554783 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781119554813 |
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| Publication status | Published - 25 Nov 2019 |
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- History
- Cultural Studies
- General Arts and Humanities
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