Displaced Persons and Documentary Illusions: Fred Zinnemann’s The Search
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/fc.13761232.0042.106" target="_blank" >10.3998/fc.13761232.0042.106</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Displaced Persons and Documentary Illusions: Fred Zinnemann’s The Search
Original language description
Fred Zinnemann’s The Search (1948) comprises intersecting plots and displaced persons presented within the illusion of documentary film. Its narrative develops on three levels: the documentary with a voice-over, the historic providing both contemporary context and flashbacks, and the individual showing us a boy and mother’s search for each other while he finds temporary refuge with an American soldier. The film dramatizes post-war European recovery; Zinnemann’s approach combines documentary and melodramatic techniques. The Search becomes a portrait of post-war Europe and an emotionally wrenching tale of family loss and reunification. The film’s presentation of displaced persons rediscovering their identities is not mere melodrama, nor are its characters but figures in a pseudo-documentary. Zinnemann is subjective but self-consciously so. The film is both historical documentation of cultural displacement in post-war Europe and a document of displacement of conventional Hollywood filming methods by documentary-style cinema technique.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Film Criticism
ISSN
0163-5069
e-ISSN
2471-4364
Volume of the periodical
1
Issue of the periodical within the volume
42
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
000448644200005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090224423