Je t'aime-- moi non plus : Franco-British cinematic relations / edited by Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mazdon, Lucy.

Wheatley, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, French--Great Britain.

Motion pictures, French.

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

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures, British--France.

Motion pictures, British.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Other Title:

Franco-British cinematic relations

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship. As this collection of essays reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between British critical esteem for the films of France and French dismissal of 'le cinéma British', or the success of Ken Loach et al. at the French box office and the relative dearth of French movies on British screens. In fact, there has long been a rich and productive dialogue between these two cultures in which both their clear differences and their shared concerns have played a vital role. This book pro

Contents:

Franco-British Cinematic Relations: An Overview / Lucy Mazdon

Industry and Institutions. The Exhibition, Distribution and Reception of French Films in Great Britain during the 1930s / Vincent Porter

The 'Cinematization' of Sound Cinema in Britain and the Dubbing into French of Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934) / Charles O'Brien

Une Entente Cordiale? A Brief History of the Anglo-French Film Coproduction Agreement, 1965/1979 / Justin Smith

Channel-crossing Festivals: The Cases of the French Film Festival U.K. and Dinard's Festival du Film Britannique / Cecile Renaud

The Language of Love? How the French Sold Lady Chatterley's Lover (Back) to British Audiences / Catherine Wheatley

Reception and Perceptions. Disciplining the Nouvelle Vague: Censoring A Bout de Souffle and Other Early French New Wave Films (1956/1962) / Daniel Biltereyst

The Reception of the Nouvelle Vague in Britain / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

'New Waves, New Publics?': The Nouvelle Vague, French Stars and British Cinema / Sarah Street

Mirror Image: French Reflections of British Cinema / Ian Christie

'Incredibly French'?: Nation as an Interpretative Context for Extreme Cinema / Melanie Selfe

British Audiences and 1990s French New Realism: La Vie Revuee des Anges as Cinematic Slum Realism / Ingrid Stigsdotter

Personnel and Performance. 'The Meaning of That French Word Chic': Annabella's Franco-British Stardom / Jonathan Driskell

'Those Frenchies Seek Him Everywhere': David Niven in Franco-British Cinematic Relations / Cristina Johnston

Truffaut in London / Robert Murphy

Jane Birkin: From English Rose to French Icon / Leila Wimmer

The French Resistance Through British Eyes : From 'Allo 'Allo! to Charlotte Gray / Ginette Vincendeau

'In the Ghetto': Space, Race and Marginalization in French and British 'Urban' Films La Haine and Bullet Boy / Jim Morrissey.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845458553

1845458559

OCLC:

727649488