New spaces for French and Francophone cinema / [James F. Austin, special editor for this issue].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austin, James F.

Series:

Yale French studies ; no. 115.

Yale French studies, 004-0078 ; no. 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Civilization.

Motion pictures, French.

History.

France.

Motion pictures--France--Influence.

Motion pictures--Africa, French-speaking--History.

Motion pictures, French--History and criticism.

Imperialism in motion pictures.

Postcolonialism in motion pictures.

National characteristics, French, in motion pictures.

France--Civilization--21st century.

French-speaking Africa.

Physical Description:

157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2009]

Summary:

"On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the French Nouvelle Vague, this volume of Yale French studies aims to take the pulse of French and Francophone cinema today by exploring the national, transnational, and post-colonial spaces of twenty-first-century France."--From publisher description.

Contents:

French cinema in the new century / Michel Marie

Lost in globalized space? : a certain French cinema abroad / Roger Celestin

French women directors negotiating transnational identities / Catherine Portuges

The spatial evacuation of politics : landscape, power, and the "monarch" in Robert Guédiguian's The last Mitterand / Ludovic Cortade

Destroying the banlieue : reconfigurations of suburban space in French film / James F. Austin

Signs of the times : Chris Marker's Chats perchés / Margaret C. Flinn

"Seeing and listening from the site of trauma" : the Algerian war in contemporary French cinema / Guy Austin

Incorporating indigenous soldiers in the space of the French nation : Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes / Panivong Norindr

Africa/France : contesting space / Dominic Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780300118223

0300118228

OCLC:

403930864