Naomi Greene is Professor Emeritus of French and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy (Princeton) and Antonin Artaud: Poet without Words (Simon & Schuster) and is the translator of Marc Ferro's Cinema and History (Wayne State University Press).

• Acknowledgments vii I. Introduction 3 II. Alain Resnais: The Ghosts of History 31 III. Battles for Memory: Vichy Revisited 64 IV. Bertrand Tavernier: History in the Present Tense 98 V. Memory and Its Losses: Troubled Dreams of Empire 130 VI. A la recherche du temps perdu: The Specter of Populism 159 Epilogue 190 Notes 195 Index 227

Naomi Greene is Professor Emeritus of French and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy (Princeton) and Antonin Artaud: Poet without Words (Simon & Schuster) and is the translator of Marc Ferro's Cinema and History (Wayne State University Press).

• Acknowledgments vii I. Introduction 3 II. Alain Resnais: The Ghosts of History 31 III. Battles for Memory: Vichy Revisited 64 IV. Bertrand Tavernier: History in the Present Tense 98 V. Memory and Its Losses: Troubled Dreams of Empire 130 VI. A la recherche du temps perdu: The Specter of Populism 159 Epilogue 190 Notes 195 Index 227

Naomi Greene is Professor Emeritus of French and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy (Princeton) and Antonin Artaud: Poet without Words (Simon & Schuster) and is the translator of Marc Ferro's Cinema and History (Wayne State University Press).

• Acknowledgments vii I. Introduction 3 II. Alain Resnais: The Ghosts of History 31 III. Battles for Memory: Vichy Revisited 64 IV. Bertrand Tavernier: History in the Present Tense 98 V. Memory and Its Losses: Troubled Dreams of Empire 130 VI. A la recherche du temps perdu: The Specter of Populism 159 Epilogue 190 Notes 195 Index 227