Gender and French cinema / edited by Alex Hughes and James S. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Alex, 1960-

Williams, James S., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Feminism and motion pictures.

France.

History.

Women in motion pictures.

Feminism and motion pictures--France.

Physical Description:

xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.

Summary:

This book opens up the history of twentieth-century French cinema from the silent era to the present day by exploring the key role of gender and sexual politics. A much-needed sequel to Berg's bestselling Gender and German Cinema, the volume tackles such questions as: What role did the female voice play when sound cinema was first developed? How have film genres and movements been shaped by gender and sexual politics? How does gender intersect with factors of race, class, ethnic, and national identity?

Bringing together original essays by French, British and American scholars, the collection fully covers the development of French cinema. It addresses the work of individual auteurs, the French star system, and film genres and movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism, the New Wave and the New New Wave. It also focuses on film narratives in which issues of gender are particularly pertinent.

Contents:

Bodies cut and dissolved: Dada and surrealist film / Elza Adamowicz

Diva in the spotlight: music hall to cinema / Kelley Conway

'Mon cul est intersexuel?': Arletty's performance of gender / Keith Reader

For our eyes only: body and sexuality in reverse motion in the films of Jean Cocteau / James S. Williams

Setting the agenders: Simone Signoret - The pre-feminist star body / Susan Hayward

Gender, modernism and mass culture in the new wave / Geneviève Sellier

'Autistic masculinity' in Jean-Pierre Melville's crime thrillers / Ginette Vincendeau

Gender in the French fantasy film, 1965-95 / Guy Austin

Going through the motions: unconscious optics and corporal resistance in Miéville and Godard's France/tour/détour/deux/enfants / Michael Witt

The god, the king, the fool, and øø : anamorphosing the films of Beineix / Phil Powrie

AIDS-Video: Representing the body in Guibert's La Pudeur ou l'impudeur / Alex Hughes

Gender and sexuality in New New Wave Cinema / Dina Sherzer

Running out of place: gender, space, and crisis in Ferreira Barbosa's Les Gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel and Lvovsky's Oublie-moi / Julia Dobson

Identification and female friendship in contemporary French film / Emma Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286), filmography and index.

ISBN:

1859735703

1859735754

OCLC:

47623769