In Detail

This talk by Professor Maggie Andrews, David Coxon and Sandy Guthrie, of the Cinema Education Team, illustrated by a range of clips, explores how films, such as ‘Army of Shadows’ (1969) and ‘Free Men’ (2011) portray the French Resistance and the Special Operations Executive (SOE), who worked with them during the Second World War.

It will interrogate how the complexities, compromises and moral dilemmas of both fighting and living under the Nazi regime are represented in cinema, paying particular attention to the representation of women in films such as ‘A Call to Spy’ (2019, about Noor Inayat Khan) and ‘Charlotte Gray’ (2001), while considering the selectivity of memories and the misrepresentation of the past in films such as ‘Carve Her Name with Pride’ (1958) and ‘Female Agents’ (2008).

100m inc Q&A

Tickets £8