Costa-Gavras

John J. Michalczyk is Professor and Director of Film Studies in the Art, Art History, and Film department of Boston College, USA, and author and/or editor of fourteen books, including works on Ingmar Bergman, as well as on French and Italian filmmakers. More recently he has published Filming the End of the Holocaust (Bloomsbury 2016), Confront! Resistance in Nazi Germany (2005), and Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg (Bloomsbury 2017). Since 1992, he has been a documentary filmmaker, whose works include The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust; Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich; Creating Harmony: The Displaced Jewish Orchestra from St. Ottilien; Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall; Nazi Law: Legally Blind; and Hitler's Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust.Susan A. Michalczyk is a professor in the Boston College Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, USA. Author, editor, and documentary filmmaker, her main interests are comparative literature, language, art, and film, focus upon the autobiographical narrative/memory experience as it relates to film and literature. She has been a partner with her husband, John J. Michalczyk, in both teaching and film production for over twenty-five years, focusing on issues of social justice and human rights. Co-producer and scriptwriter, her works include Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich; Creating Harmony: The Displaced Persons' Orchestra from St. Ottilien; Killing Silence: Taking on the Mafia in Sicily; Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall; Lou Montgomery: A Legacy Restored; Nazi Law: Legally Blind, Hitler's Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust.

The authors of this book contribute significantly to a thorough understanding of the historical background of the entire work of Costa-Gavras. With an apt classification of films based on historical themes rather than chronology, they provide an in-depth insight into how the director highlights the effects of the past on the present and the collective memory.

• List of FiguresDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: A Fresh Political Genre on the Scene1. Z (1969): A Greek Tragedy2. The Confession (L'Aveu, 1970): In the Shadow of KafkaPart Two: Latin America: Costa-Gavras-“I am Not Anti-American”3. State of Siege (Etat de siège, 1973): The Long Arm of the US4. Missing (1982): An American “Disappeared”Part Three: Terrorism: The Worst is Yet to Come5. Betrayed (La Main droite du diable, 1989): Homegrown Terrorism:6. Hanna K. (1983): Terrorism and the Victims of the VictimsPart Four: World War II: Apocalypse Then7. Shock Troops (Un Homme de trop, 1967): Resistance Dilemma8. Special Section (Section spéciale, 1976): Vichy and the French Government Puppets9. Music Box (1990): A Matter of Conscience10. Amen. (2002): From Euthanasia to the Final SolutionPart Five: Social Issues: A Finger on the Pulse of Society11. The Ax (Le Couperet, 2005): A Process of Elimination12. Eden is West (Eden est à l'ouest, 2009): A Picaresque Odyssey13. Capital (Le Capital, 2012): A Modern Robin Hood14. Adults in the Room (2019): Greek Debt and a David vs. Goliath BatttleEpilogueNotes AuthorsBibliographyFilmographyIndex