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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826942203321

Titolo

New spaces for French and Francophone cinema / / [James F. Austin, special editor]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35229-6

9786612352294

0-300-15532-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Collana

Yale French studies ; ; no. 115

Altri autori (Persone)

AustinJames F

Disciplina

791.430944

Soggetti

Motion pictures - France - History and criticism

Motion pictures - France - Influence

Motion pictures - Africa, French-speaking - History

Motion pictures, French - History and criticism

Imperialism in motion pictures

Postcolonialism in motion pictures

National characteristics, French, in motion pictures

France Civilization 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Editor's Preface: New Spaces for French and Francophone Cinema -- I. French National/Transnational Cinema: An Overview -- French Cinema in the New Century -- Lost in Globalized Space? A Certain French Cinema Abroad -- French Women Directors Negotiating Transnational Identities -- II. Representing Space in Cinema: City, Suburb, and Countryside -- The Spatial Evacuation of Politics: Landscape, Power, and the "Monarch" in Robert Guédiguian's The Last Mitterand -- Destroying the banlieue: Reconfigurations of Suburban Space in French Film -- Signs of the Times: Chris Marker's Chats perchés -- III. Postcolonial Locations: Francophone Film and Africa -- Seeing and listening from the site of trauma": The Algerian War in Contemporary French Cinema -- Incorporating Indigenous Soldiers in the Space of the French Nation: Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes --



Africa/France: Contesting Space.