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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Austin, James F.

Series:

• Yale French studies ; no. 115.
• Yale French studies ; no. 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motion pictures--France--History and criticism.
• 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contents Grace An and James Austin Editors' Preface: New Spaces for French and Francophone Cinema I. French National/Transnational Cinema Roger Celestin Conquering Globalized Space? A Certain French Cinema Abroad Grace An The Future Past of the French Auteur Catherine Portugues The NewWave of Women Filmmakers Michel Marie New Spaces in French Cinema: Off the Beaten Path: The Periphery of the Hexagon and its Geographical Limits Sue Harris The Place of Comedy at the French Box Office in the 21st Century II. Representing Space in Cinema and New Media Ludovic Cortade The Spatial Evacuation of Politics: Landscape, Power, and the Monarch in Robert Gu diguian's The Last Mitterand James Austin Destroying the banlieue Re-configuration of Suburban Space in French Film Margaret Flinn Signs of the Times: Chris Marker's Chats perch s Timothy Murray Voyage to the Center of the Virtual Universe III. Postcolonial Locations: Francophone Film and Algeria Guy Austin Algeria and Colonial Trauma in Contemporary French Cinema Panivong Norindr On Filmic Pedagogy and Performance: Rachid Bouchareb's Indig nes Dominic Thomas Africa/France: Contest(ed)ing Space in the Hexagon

Contents:

• Contents
• Editor's Preface: New Spaces for French and Francophone Cinema
• I. French National/Transnational Cinema: An Overview
• French Cinema in the New Century
• Lost in Globalized Space? A Certain French Cinema Abroad
• French Women Directors Negotiating Transnational Identities
• II. Representing Space in Cinema: City, Suburb, and Countryside
• The Spatial Evacuation of Politics: Landscape, Power, and the "Monarch" in Robert Guédiguian's The Last Mitterand
• Destroying the banlieue: Reconfigurations of Suburban Space in French Film
• Signs of the Times: Chris Marker's Chats perchés
• III. Postcolonial Locations: Francophone Film and Africa
• Seeing and listening from the site of trauma": The Algerian War in Contemporary French Cinema
• Incorporating Indigenous Soldiers in the Space of the French Nation: Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes
• Africa/France: Contesting Space.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 1-282-35229-6
• 9786612352294
• 0-300-15532-8

OCLC:

923593143