Paris in the cinema : beyond the flâneur / Edited by Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Alastair, 1963- editor.

Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Paris (France)--In motion pictures--History.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute, 2017.

Summary:

"Paris in the Cinema' 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, the volume introduces, challenges and extends ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity. Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, ranging from particular districts such as Saint-Germain-des-Pres and les banlieues (the suburbs) in French cinema, to iconic figures such as the detective Maigret and the lovers, and from locations such as the hotel, the building site and the Eiffel Tower to filmmakers such as Agnes Varda and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, this unique text demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements.- Beyond the flâneur: an introduction; Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.- PART 1: LOCATIONS.- The Eiffel Tower: a Parisian film star; Nicoleta Bazgan.- Working-class Paris and post-war noir: Les Portes de la nuit; Thomas Pillard.- The caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1950s French cinema; Sébastien Layerle.- Le Signe du lion: Paris in the summer of 1959; Michel Marie.- Truffaut's apartments; Hilary Radner and Alistair Fox.- The New Wave hotel; Roland-François Lack.- The vanishing of Les Halles; Catherine E. Clark.- The Parisian banlieue on screen: so close, yet so far; Ginette Vincendeau.- PART 2: CHARACTERS.- Maigret from across the Channel; Charlotte Brunsdon.- Parisian cinephiles and the Mac-Mahon; Leila Wimmer.- Beyond the flâneuse: the uniqueness of Cléo de 5 à 7; Jennifer Wallace.- Amateur filmmakers' Paris: home movies at the Forum des images; Roger Odin.- The concierge in contemporary French Cinema; Raphaëlle Moine.- Parisian lovers in the contemporary romcom; Mary Harrod.- The enduring glamour of the Parisienne; Stephen Gundle.- PART 3: HISTORY.- Charles Dickens's Two Cities; Colin Jones.- From Meryon to Ulmer's Bluebeard: a Baudelairian iconography; Jean-Loup Bourget.- Site of infamy: the Vel' d'Hiv in French cinema; Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.- 'Unremarkable Paris': Jacques Becker's Urban Everyday; Alastair Phillips.- Television and the renewal of Paris, from official discourse to social criticism; Hélène Jannière.- Parisian building sites (1945-1975): from modernity to abstraction; Marie Gaimard and Marguerite Vappereau.- The mirror of a city: the 'Parisian Collection' of the Forum des images; Jean-Yves de Lépinay.- INTERVIEW.- Filming Paris: an interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.- Contributors.- Select bibliography.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-83871-754-4

1-83871-190-2

1-84457-820-8

OCLC:

1100853590