The author presents illustrated summaries of 40 French films, including selected cast and crew information and original years of release.
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The author presents illustrated summaries of 40 French films, including selected cast and crew information and original years of release.
Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, it…
Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, it…
O'Shaughnessy argues that by finding stylistic and narrative strategies relevant to current political and social concerns, French cinema is contributing in original ways to the restoration of the grounds for socio-political critique, and in doing so, is helping to reinvent polit…
O'Shaughnessy argues that by finding stylistic and narrative strategies relevant to current political and social concerns, French cinema is contributing in original ways to the restoration of the grounds for socio-political critique, and in doing so, is helping to reinvent polit…
Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries: in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnes Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold hav…
'Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful …
The first major study of two overlapping strands in contemporary French cinema, cinéma beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinéma de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates).