A companion to contemporary French cinema / edited by Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, and Hilary Radner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Alistair, editor.

Marie, Michel, 1945- editor.

Moine, Raphaëlle, editor.

Radner, Hilary, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--France--History--21st century.

History.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 691 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction: Contemporary French cinema - continuity and change in a global context / Alistair Fox, with Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, and Hilary Radner

The political economy of French cinema: attendance and movie theaters / Laurent Creton

"Do we have a right to exist?" French cinema, culture, and world trade / Jonathan Buchsbaum

Historicizing contemporary French blockbusters / Charlie Michael

Moving between screens: television and cinema in France, 1990-2010 / Guillaume Soulez

Contemporary political cinema / Martin O'Shaughnessy

Diasporic and postcolonial cinema in France from the 1990s to the present / Will Higbee

The veterans of the new wave, their heirs, and contemporary French cinema / Michel Marie

Was there a young French cinema? / Jacqueline Nacache

Auteurism, personal cinema, and the Fémis generation: the case of François Ozon / Alistair Fox

Contemporary French comedy as social laboratory / Raphaëlle Moine

Between tradition and innovation: French crime films during the 2000s / Thomas Pillard

Contemporary French horror cinema: from absence to embodied presence / Guy Austin

The historical film and contemporary French cinema: representing the past in the present / Hilary Radner

Major stars, the heritage film, and patrimonial values in contemporary French cinemas / Gwénaëlle Le Gras

French animated cinema, 1990 to present / Richard Neupert

Contemporary French documentary: a renaissance, 1992-2012 / Alison J. Murray Levine

Pitiful men, instrumental women: the reconfiguration of masculine domination in contemporary popular French cinema / Geneviève Sellier

French women directors since the 1990s: trends, new developments, and challenges / Brigitte Rollet

Modes of masculinity in contemporary French cinema / Tim Palmer

Hors milieu: queer and beyond / Nick Rees-Roberts

Sexually explicit French cinema: genre, gender, and sex / Kelley Conway

Booking passages: adventures in adaptation in recent French cinema / T. Jefferson Kline

The return of theatricality in French cinema of the 1990s: a new imbrication of comedy and melodrama / Marguerite Chabrol

Soundscapes of loss: songs in contemporary French cinema / Phil Powrie

From the margins to the center: French stardom and ethnicity / Ginette Vincendeau

An invention with a future: French cinema after the end of cinema / Martine Beugnet

The amateur in cinema, in France, since 1990: definitions, issues, and trends / Roger Odin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to contemporary French cinema

ISBN:

1444338994

9781444338997

OCLC:

885546910

Publisher Number:

99963559227