Screening youth : contemporary French and Francophone cinema / edited by Romain Chareyron and Gilles Viennot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chareyron, Romain, Author.

Contributor:

Chareyron, Romain, editor.

Viennot, Gilles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--France--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Explores how the topic of 'youth' has inspired Francophone filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young peopleYouth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors’ visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of ‘youth’ has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions – political, social, religious, economic or cultural – that agitate a society at a given time in its history.Key featuresDeals with contemporary issues such as LGBTQ identities, terrorism or social tensions and inequities in French and Francophone societiesPresents significant filmmakers whose work has rarely been discussed in an academic settingIntroduces the works of emerging directors and/or prominent directors from Francophone countriesGathers academics from different fields, offering a multi-faceted approach to the topic of youth in filmContributorsKarine Chevalier, University of Roehampton, LondonJuliette Feyel, University of Paris-NanterreFiona Handyside, University of ExeterMaria Flood, Keele UniversityAubrey Korneta, Sarah Lawrence College Kathryn Chaffee, University of California, Los AngelesBen McCann, University of AdelaideEricka Knudson, Harvard UniversityGemma Edney, University of ExeterElizabeth Geary Keohane, University of GlasgowJocelyn Wright, University of Texas - AustinWalter S. Temple, Utah Valley UniversityJeri English, University of Toronto, ScarboroughClaire Boyle, University of Edinburgh Romain Chareyron, University of SaskatchewanGilles Viennot, University of Arkansas

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

CHAPTER 1. Disparate Lives: Representations of Youth in French and Francophone Cinema

CHAPTER 2. Un Vrai ‘Teen Film’ Français? The Contemporary Adolescent Genre in French Cinema

CHAPTER 3. Childhood and Gender Panic in Ma Vie en rose and Tomboy

CHAPTER 4. Bargaining the Body: Love, Death and Rites of Passage in Three Films by François Ozon

CHAPTER 5. Repetition and Difference: The Representation of Youth in the Films of Céline Sciamma

CHAPTER 6. Mia Hansen-Løve, Postfeminism in France and the Melancholic Girl

CHAPTER 7. Frames of Desire and Otherness: Queer Bodies Caught in-between France and the Maghreb

CHAPTER 8. ‘A Child of the Ruins’: Youthful Disaffection and the ‘Making Of’ the Terrorist

CHAPTER 9. Gender and Representations of the Banlieue in Abd Al Malik’s Qu’Allah bénisse la France! and Sylvie Ohayon’s Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone

CHAPTER 10. (Re)Framing Youth and Identity in the Classroom in Être et avoir and Entre les murs

CHAPTER 11. Young Love and Everyday Freedom: Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Faute à Voltaire and La Vie d’Adèle

CHAPTER 12. Anthem for (Doomed) Youth: War, AIDS and the Queer Autobiographical Cinema of André Téchiné

CHAPTER 13. ‘Je veux promouvoir le vivre-ensemble’: Youth and Friendship in L’Auberge espagnole, Les Poupées russes and Casse-tête chinois

CHAPTER 14. Catherine Breillat’s Maiden Trilogy

CHAPTER 15. Dismembering and Remembering Childhood in Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474449441

1474449441

OCLC:

1312726336