Sylvie Lindeperg

Sylvie Lindeperg

Birthday: 1965-04-08

Place of Birth: Oullins, France

Biography: Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the connections between cinema, memory and history, with a particular inclination toward the Second World War and the International Justice. She draws her inspiration at the junctures of history and art history, in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Baxandall and Daniel Arasse, thereby contributing to the revival of a field pioneered in France by Marc Ferro, Michele Lagny and Pierre Sorlin.

Movies

Facing the Phantoms
Facing the Phantoms

French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night a...

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Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation
Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation

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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Filmmakers for the Prosecution

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...

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The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused...

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