Screening the Paris Suburbs : from the silent era to the 1990s / edited by Philippe Met, Derek Schilling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schilling, Derek (Derek G.), editor.

Met, Philippe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--France.

Motion pictures.

France.

Suburbs--France.

Suburbs.

Physical Description:

xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester Univiversity Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Decades before the emergence circa 1995 of a French self-styled 'hood' film, and indeed from the beginnings of cinema itself, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions, from bourgeois villas and bucolic riverside cafés to postwar housing estates and postmodern new towns. Themes central to French cultural modernity (class conflict, leisure, boredom or anti-authoritarianism) cut across the fifteen chapters." -- Publisher's website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526106858

152610685X

OCLC:

950450695