A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas)

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. • Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema • Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters • Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking • Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies • Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time 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 Film-making 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 Film-makers And Performers; Genres, Cycles, And Cinematic Forms; Gender And Sexuality; And Emerging Trends And Innovative New Film-making 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, Baise-moi, And Trouble Every Day, And Numerous Auteur Films Ranging From Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan And Frantois Ozon's Shorts To Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley And Alain Guiraudie's L'lnconnu 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. Alistair Fox Is Professor Emeritus At The University Of Otago. Michel Marie Is Professor Emeritus At L'universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Raphadlle Moine Is Professor Of Cinema And Media Studies At L'universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Hilary Radner Is Professor Of Film And Media Studies In The Department Of History And Art History At The University Of Otago --book Jacket. Introduction: Contemporary French Cinema -- Continuity And Change In A Global Context / Alistair Fox, With Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, And Hilary Radner -- The Political Economy Of French Cinema: Attendance And Movie Theaters / Laurent Creton -- Do We Have A Right To Exist? French Cinema, Culture, And World Trade / Jonathan Buchsbaum -- Historicizing Contemporary French Blockbusters / Charlie Michael -- Moving Between Screens: Television And Cinema In France, 1990-2010 / Guillaume Soulez -- Contemporary Political Cinema / Martin O'shaughnessy -- Diasporic And Postcolonial Cinema In France From The 1990s To The Present / Will Higbee -- The Veterans Of The New Wave, Their Heirs, And Contemporary French Cinema / Michel Marie -- Was There A Young French Cinema? / Jacqueline Nacache -- Auteurism, Personal Cinema, And The Fémis Generation: The Case Of François Ozon / Alistair Fox -- Contemporary French Comedy As Social Laboratory / Raphaëlle Moine --^ Between Tradition And Innovation: French Crime Films During The 2000s / Thomas Pillard -- Contemporary French Horror Cinema: From Absence To Embodied Presence / Guy Austin -- The Historical Film And Contemporary French Cinema: Representing The Past In The Present / Hilary Radner -- Major Stars, The Heritage Film, And Patrimonial Values In Contemporary French Cinemas / Gwénaëlle Le Gras -- French Animated Cinema, 1990 To Present / Richard Neupert -- Contemporary French Documentary: A Renaissance, 1992-2012 / Alison J. Murray Levine -- Pitiful Men, Instrumental Women: The Reconfiguration Of Masculine Domination In Contemporary Popular French Cinema / Geneviève Sellier -- French Women Directors Since The 1990s: Trends, New Developments, And Challenges / Brigitte Rollet -- Modes Of Masculinity In Contemporary French Cinema / Tim Palmer -- Hors Milieu: Queer And Beyond / Nick Rees-roberts -- Sexually Explicit French Cinema: Genre, Gender, And Sex / Kelley Conway --^ Booking Passages: Adventures In Adaptation In Recent French Cinema / T. Jefferson Kline -- The Return Of Theatricality In French Cinema Of The 1990s: A New Imbrication Of Comedy And Melodrama / Marguerite Chabrol -- Soundscapes Of Loss: Songs In Contemporary French Cinema / Phil Powrie -- From The Margins To The Center: French Stardom And Ethnicity / Ginette Vincendeau -- An Invention With A Future: French Cinema After The End Of Cinema / Martine Beugnet -- The Amateur In Cinema, In France, Since 1990: Definitions, Issues, And Trends / Roger Odin. Edited By Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, And Hilary Radner. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 631-654) And Index. 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. This book presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day.0 • Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema0• Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters0• Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking0• Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies0• Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time Auteur-led Productions and the "Return" of the Politicalin Diasporic and Postcolonial Cinema Since the 1990sFrom Margins to the Mainstream: Postcolonial Comedy and the Mainstreaming of Maghrebi-French Filmmakers in the 2000s; Memorializing Colonial History: From Neo-Colonial to "Counter-Heritage" Cinema; Return Narratives in Diasporic Cinema of the 2000s; Beyond Ethnicity? Reconfiguring Difference in Diasporic Cinema; Part II: Auteurs and Auteurism; 7 The Veterans of the New Wave, Their Heirs, and Contemporary French Cinema; The Extraordinary Fecundity of the Veterans of the New Wave __A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema__