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Screening the Paris suburbs : from the silent era to the 1990s

Title
Screening the Paris suburbs : from the silent era to the 1990s / edited by Philippe Met, Derek Schilling.
Publication
  • Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Schilling, Derek (Derek G.)
  • Met, Philippe
Description
xii, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "Decades before the emergence circa 1995 of a French self-styled 'hood' film, and indeed from the beginnings of cinema itself, 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 postwar housing estates and postmodern new towns. Themes central to French cultural modernity (class conflict, leisure, boredom or anti-authoritarianism) cut across the fifteen chapters."--Publisher's website.
  • The record of French cinema's many forays into the Paris suburbs is far more than a prehistory of the 'film de banlieue'. Decades before the emergence--around 1995--of a self-styled 'hood' film in France, filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the City of Light for inspiration and content. In the jumble of spaces surrounding Paris they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions. Idyllic or menacing, wide-open or claustrophobic, these locales served divergent ideological and aesthetic programmes. From the bourgeois villas and vacant lots of Louis Feuillade's serials of the 1910s and the bucolic watering holes of 1930s poetic realism to the vast post-war housing estates showcased by Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati and Maurice Pialat, the gritty noir décors of Jean-Pierre Melville or the sleek, post-modern new towns shot by Éric Rohmer, the Paris suburbs came to form a key site in teh national imaginary. For the first time in English, the fifteen contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long screen history, which intersects with themes central to French cultural modernity, including class conflict, leisure, boredom, alienation and anti-authoritarianism. Diverse in focus and expansive in scope, Screening the Paris suburbs will interest students and scholars of French film, cultural studies and urban/suburban studies--back cover.
Subject
  • Suburbs in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > France
  • Suburbs > France
  • Motion pictures
  • Suburbs
  • France
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80 / Annie Fourcaut -- 2. Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920 / Roland-François Lack -- 3. Roads, rivers, canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo / Jean-Louis Pautrot -- 4. The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s / Keith Reader -- 5. Julien Duvivier and inter-war 'banlieutopia' / Margaret C. Flinn -- 6. Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens / Erik Ballot -- 7. Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue / Tristan Jean -- 8. Tati, suburbia and modernity / Malcolm Turvey -- 9. A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe / Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck -- 10. Godard's suburban years / Térésa Faucon -- 11. The banlieue wore black: post-war French polar, from Becker to Corneau / Philippe Met -- 12. Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80 / Camille Canteux -- 13. Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968 / Derek Schilling -- 14. Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau / David Vasse -- 15. What's left of the 'red suburb'? Hervé Le Roux's Reprise as case study / Guillaume Soulez.
Call Number
MFL 23-3558
ISBN
  • 9781526106858
  • 152610685X
OCLC
950450695
Title
Screening the Paris suburbs : from the silent era to the 1990s / edited by Philippe Met, Derek Schilling.
Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Schilling, Derek (Derek G.), editor.
Met, Philippe, editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 23-3558
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