A Companion to Contemporary French CinemaAlistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, Hilary Radner A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day. Featuring contributions from an international cast of established and emerging scholars of French cinema, these innovative essays highlight the diversity of French films and filmmaking techniques that have emerged since the New Wave era. Themes and topics covered include the social, political, and cultural contexts of recent French cinema; contemporary filmmakers and performers; genres, cycles, and cinematic forms; gender and sexuality; and emerging trends and innovative new filmmaking forms. Among the French films examined in depth are hit comedies including Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis and Intouchables, blockbusters such as The Crimson Rivers, police films like 36th Precinct, historical films such as Farewell My Queen and Days of Glory, celebrated animated features such as Kirikou and the Sorceress, films representative of the “new French extreme,” such as Romance, Baisemoi, and Trouble Every Day, and numerous auteur films ranging from Bruno Dumont’s Hors Satan and François Ozon’s shorts to Pascale Ferran’s Lady Chatterley and Alain Guiraudie’s L’Inconnu du lac. Combining cutting-edge scholarship with wide-ranging methodological approaches and perspectives, A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of French film, as well as all those interested in the evolution of this celebrated cinematic tradition. |
Contents
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Historicizing Contemporary French Blockbusters | 74 |
Television and Cinema in France | 96 |
Contemporary Political Cinema | 117 |
Diasporic and Postcolonial Cinema in France from the 1990s | 136 |
Comedy and the Mainstreaming of MaghrebiFrench | 144 |
Auteurs and Auteurism | 161 |
Was There a Young French Cinema? | 184 |
A Renaissance 19922012 | 356 |
Gender and Sexuality | 377 |
Trends | 399 |
Modes of Masculinity in Contemporary French Cinema | 419 |
Queer and Beyond | 439 |
Genre Gender and Sex | 461 |
Continuities and Emerging Trends | 481 |
Songs in Contemporary French Cinema | 527 |
The Case | 205 |
Genres Cycles and Cinematic Forms | 231 |
French Crime Films During | 256 |
Between Documentary | 266 |
From Absence | 275 |
Representing | 289 |
Major Stars the Heritage Film and Patrimonial Values | 314 |
French Animated Cinema 1990 to Present | 333 |
French Stardom and Ethnicity | 547 |
French Cinema After the End of Cinema | 570 |
Definitions Issues | 590 |
List of Contemporary French Films Since 1990 Cited in this Volume | 612 |
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