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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Christina Schwenkel

Imaging Humanity: Socialist Film and Transnational Memories of the War in Vietnam

In Hải Ninh’s wartime feature film, Em Bé Hà Nội (Little Girl of Hanoi, 1974), Ngọc Hà, played by the ten-year-old first-time actor Lan Hương, frantically runs through the streets of war-torn Hanoi looking for her soldier father in the aftermath of the 1972 Christmas bombing that killed her mother and younger sister. Filmed on site amidst the actual rubble and embers of the still-smoldering city, Em Bé Hà Nội conveys both the scope of urban devastation and the profound sense of loss – of life, family, home, and community – as seen and experienced through the eyes of a traumatized young girl. Ngọc Hà returns from the countryside where she had ...

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ISBN: 9783110386738