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Post-Beur cinema : North African âemigrâe and Maghrebi-French filmmaking in France since 2000
A comparative analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African âemigrâe cinema in France.
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The Pedagogical Imagination
French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality,The Pedagogical Imaginationtakes a different approach.In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from \"what\" literature and film say about education to \"how\" they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic treatments of French education in recent years-the works of Agnès Varda, Érik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, François Bégaudeau-do more than merely depict the present-day school crisis. They explore questions of education through experiments with form.
The Pedagogical Imaginationshows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of active, experiential learning-principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diffusion of republican ideology.
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A companion to contemporary French cinema
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.
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The pedagogical imagination : the republican legacy in twenty-first-century French literature and film
\"French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a different approach. In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from \"what\" literature and film say about education to \"how\" they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic treatments of French education in recent years--the works of Agnes Varda, Érik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Bégaudeau--do more than merely depict the present-day school crisis. They explore questions of education through experiments with form. The Pedagogical Imagination shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of active, experiential learning--principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diffusion of republican ideology. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Studies in french cinema
Studies in French Cinemalooks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the field in English- and French-speaking universities. This seminal text is also a tribute to six key figures within the field who have been leaders in research and teaching of French cinema: Jill Forbes, Susan Hayward, Phil Powrie, Keith Reader, Carrie Tarr, and Ginette Vincendeau. Covering a wide range of key films-contemporary and historical, popular and auteur-the volume provides an invaluable overview for students and scholars of the state of French cinema, and French film studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Reimagining North African immigration : identities in flux in French literature, television, and film
This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers examined have found new ways to conceptualize the French heritage of immigration from North Africa and to portray the state of multiculturalism within - and in spite of - a continuing Republican framework. Their work deflates stereotypes, promotes respect for cultural and ethnic minorities and gives a new dignity to subjects supposedly located on the margins of the Republic. Establishing a productive dialogue with Marianne Hirsch's ground-breaking concept of postmemory, this volume provides a much-needed vocabulary for rethinking the intergenerational legacy of trans-Mediterranean immigrants.
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Laurent Cantet
Laurent Cantet is of one France’s leading contemporary directors. In a series of important films, including Human Resources, Time Out, Heading South, The Class and Foxfire, he takes stock of the modern world from the workplace, through the schoolroom and the oppressive small town to the world of international sex tourism. His films drive the hidden forces that weigh on individuals and groups into view but also show characters who are capable of reflection and reaction. If the films make their protagonists rethink their place in the world, they also challenge the positions of the viewer and the director. This is what makes them so worthy of study. Combining a fine eye for detail with broad contextual awareness, this book gives an account of all Cantet’s works, from the early short films to the major works. Martin O’Shaughnessy is a leading international writer on French cinema,especially in film and politics.
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Cinema and the republic
This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France's Republican political model before analysing films that focus on four key issues. Firstly, it will assess representations of undocumented migrants known as sans-papiers before then analysing depictions of deportations made possible by the controversial double peine law. Next, it will examine films about relations between young people and the police in suburban France before exploring films that challenge cliches about these areas. The conclusion assesses what these films show about contemporary French political cinema.
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French B Movies
In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as
the banlieues , minority
communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to
make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers
have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to
challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in
mainstream French film.
French B Movies proposes that French banlieue
films, far from being a fringe genre, offer a privileged site from
which to understand the current state of the French film industry
in an age of globalization. This gritty style appears in popular
arthouse films such as Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and
Bande de filles ( Girlhood ) along with the major
Netflix hit series Lupin . David Pettersen traces how, in
these works and others, directors fuse features of
banlieue cinema with genre formulas associated with both
Hollywood and Black cultural models, as well as how transnational
genre hybridizations, such as B movies, have become part of the
ecosystem of the French film industry.
By combining film analysis, cultural history, critical theory,
and industry studies, French B Movies reveals how
featuring banlieues is as much about trying to imagine new
identities and production models for French cinema as it is about
representation.
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