{"product_id":"france-in-flux-space-territory-and-contemporary-culture-9781786941787","title":"France in Flux: Space, Territory and Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French literary and visual culture since the 1980s. Numerous writers, filmmakers and photographers have been drawn to articulate France’s contrasting spatial qualities, from infrastructural installations such as roads, rail lines and ports, to peri-urban residential developments and isolated rural enclaves. In doing so, they explore how the country’s acute sense of national identity has been both asserted and challenged in topographic terms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging collection of essays explores how the contemporary concern with space in France has taken shape across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects through to television drama and contemporary fiction, and examines what it reveals about the state of the nation in a post-colonial and post-industrial age. The impact of global flows of capital, trade and migration can be mapped through attention to the specificities of place and topography. Investigation of liminal locations, from seaboard cities and abandoned industrial sites to refugee camps and peasant smallholdings, interrogates the assertion of a national territory (and, by extension, a national identity) through the figure of the hexagon, and highlights the fluidities, instabilities and lines of flight which render it increasingly unsettled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An invaluable contribution to French cultural studies [...] \u003ci\u003eFrance in Flux\u003c\/i\u003e provides an enlightening multi-faceted vision of issues affecting our understanding of contemporary French space and identity.'\u003cbr\u003e Carrie Tarr, Kingston University\u003cbr\u003e'With the increasing pace of globalization and the rising specter of climate change, this timely volume addresses a viewpoint that, in my opinion, will greatly benefit courses on contemporary France, literature, or cinema. [...] By examining how the French react to the rapid social, demographic, and changes via photography, film, literature, readers can better understand this France in flux.'\u003cbr\u003eKory Olson, \u003ci\u003eH-France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One realizes that opening our eyes to the importance of these apparently trivial, depressing, or monotonous spaces is precisely the point of this creatively-focused and thoughtfully-organized collection of essays. [...] I found in this apparently impoverished terrain a greatly enriched view of contemporary France. [...] The book as a whole delivers, richly, on the same vision. [...] This book is an essential read for anyone with a foundation in French studies. It will also be valuable to geographers, historians of photography and film, and scholars of literature and environment.'\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne Black, \u003ci\u003eStudies in 20th \u0026amp; 21st Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAri J. Blatt and Edward Welch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1:\u003c\/b\u003e Angels of History: Looking Back at Spatial Planning in the \u003ci\u003eMission photographique de la DATAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Welch, University of Aberdeen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2:\u003c\/b\u003e Disuse and Affect: Post-Industrial Landscapes of France’s Labour Lost\u003cbr\u003eDerek Schilling, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3:\u003c\/b\u003e Depth of Field: Farmland and Farm Life in Contemporary French Documentary\u003cbr\u003eAlison J. Murray Levine, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4:\u003c\/b\u003e Sylvain George’s Minor Mode, or Cinema at the Margins of its Fragile Community\u003cbr\u003eAnna-Louise Milne, University of London Institute in Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5:\u003c\/b\u003e Girlhood Luminosities and Topographical Politics: \u003ci\u003e17 Filles\u003c\/i\u003e (Delphine and Muriel Coulin, 2011) and \u003ci\u003eBande de filles\u003c\/i\u003e (Céline Sciamma, 2014)\u003cbr\u003eFiona Handyside, University of Exeter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLes Revenants\u003c\/i\u003e, Tignes, and the Return of Postwar Modernization\u003cbr\u003eCatherine E. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brian R. Jacobson, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7:\u003c\/b\u003e French Edgeland Poetics: Topography and Ecology in Jean Rolin’s \u003ci\u003eLes Événements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Armstrong, University of Wisconsin - Madison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8:\u003c\/b\u003e Picturing a Nation of Local Places in the \u003ci\u003eObservatoire photographique du paysage\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrance(s) territoire liquide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAri J. Blatt, University of Virginia","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470017171799,"sku":"9781786941787","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786941787.jpg?v=1744897107","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/france-in-flux-space-territory-and-contemporary-culture-9781786941787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}