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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480945203321

Titolo

Screening the Paris suburbs : From the silent era to the 1990s / / edited by Philippe Met and Derek Schilling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-4359-3

1-5261-3599-X

1-5261-0780-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

791.4365844361

Soggetti

Suburbs - France

Motion pictures - France - History

Suburbs in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80 / Annie Fourcaut -- Lumiere, Melies, Pathe and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920 / Roland-François Lack -- Roads, rivers, canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo / Jean-Louis Pautrot -- The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s / Keith Reader -- Julien Duvivier and inter-war 'banlieutopia' / Margaret C. Flinn -- Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Menilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens / Erik Ballot -- Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue / Tristan Jean -- Tati, suburbia and modernity / Malcolm Turvey -- A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe / Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck -- Godard's suburban years / Teresa Faucon -- The banlieue wore black: post-war French polar, from Becker to Corneau / Philippe Met -- Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80 / Camille Canteux -- Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968



/ Derek Schilling -- Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau / David Vasse -- What's left of the 'red suburb'? Herve Le Roux's Reprise as case study / Guillaume Soulez.

Sommario/riassunto

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 cafes 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.