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Screening the Paris suburbs
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- Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, 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 post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns. For the first time in English, contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century. Themes central to French cultural modernity - class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism - cut across the fifteen chapters.
- About The Author
- Philippe Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Derek Schilling is Professor of French at Johns Hopkins University
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526106858
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press, (05 February 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 296
- Weight
- 531 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 15.88 mm
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