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| | The University of Iowa Presidential Lectures |
 | | Fade out: Independence Day and the re-release of Star Wars predict the end of nations, at a time when we enter a new age of entertainment media that has already altered what it means to go to the movies. |
 | | Fade in: cinema inherits from the 19th century the model of grand novels, paintings, and histories confident in the idea of the national. |
 | | But Jurieu is out of place; more accurately he is out of his time, for the time of romance is over, and Renoir's film, coming out during the "phony war" of autumn 1939, unrolls as farce. |
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