Paris in the cinema : beyond the Flâneur : locations, characters, history / edited by Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Alastair, 1963- editor.

Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948- editor.

British Film Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--In motion pictures.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Published by Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2018.

Summary:

Paris is the most iconic and frequently filmed, painted and photographed city in the world. Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, television, history, architecture and literature, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau introduce, challenge and extend ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity. Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, this lively collection: Provides innovative angles on how films and television programmes deploy the French capital beyond its function as glamorous background, Challenges the pre-eminence of the flâneur paradigm in studies of the city in cinema, Explores bow filmmakers both construct and recycle its status as an 'iconic capital', Considers the specific identities of Parisians on screen, Demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory. Fresh and engaging, this fascinating resource will appeal to all students, scholars and lovers of French cinema and the capital city that comprises its major home. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Locations

The Eiffel Tower: A Parisian Film Star 17

Working-class Paris and Post-war Noir: Les Portes de la nuit 26

The Caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1950s French Cinema 35

Paris in the Summer of 1959: Le Signe du lion 45

Truffaut's Apartments 55

The New Wave Hotel 66

The Vanishing of Les Halles 76

The Parisian Banlieue on Screen: So Close, Yet So Far 87

Part II Characters

Maigret from across the Channel 103

Parisian Cinephiles and the Mac-Mahon 113

Beyond the Flâneuse: The Uniqueness of Cléo de 5 à 7 125

Amateur Filmmakers' Paris: Home Movies at the Forum des Images 136

The Concierge in Contemporary French Cinema 146

Parisian Lovers in the Contemporary Romcom 156

The Enduring Glamour of the Parisienne 166

Part III History

Charles Dickens's Two Cities 179

From Meryon to Ulmer's Bluebeard: A Baudelairian Iconography 187

Site of Infamy: The Vel' d'Hiv in French Cinema 196

'Unremarkable Paris': Jacques Becker's Urban Everyday 207

Television and the Renewal of Paris: From Official Discourse to Social Criticism 218

Parisian Building Sites (1945-75): From Modernity to Abstraction 230

The Mirror of a City: The 'Parisian Collection' of the Forum des Images 242

Part IV Interview

Filming Paris: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index.

ISBN:

9781844578177

9781844578184

1844578186

1844578178

OCLC:

1004589358

Publisher Number:

99975965311