{"product_id":"screening-the-paris-suburbs-from-the-silent-era-to-the-1990s-9781526106858","title":"Screening the Paris Suburbs: From the Silent Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, 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 cafés to post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns. For the first time in English, contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century. Themes central to French cultural modernity – class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism – cut across the fifteen chapters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This edited volume is an important contribution to conceptions of geography and French cinema. The fifteen contributions address the banlieue in film as geographic suburb and mise-en-scène that is both incidental landscape and elemental context for cinematic storytelling. Overall, the volume demonstrates how notions of banlieue cinema allow us to reconsider well-known French interwar and postwar films with an awareness of the postcolonial and hip-hop discourses that have over-coded an underlying historical context. The richness of this approach lies in how it foregrounds spatial dynamics within the Hexagon, or metropolitan France, as supplemented by longstanding histories of migration and regional idioms [...] A wide range of perspectives thus describe and reconsider the “space of periphery” in French cinema.’\u003cbr\u003ePeter J. Bloom, University of California, \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 19 (2019)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Philippe Met and Derek Schilling\u003cbr\u003e1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930–80 – Annie Fourcaut\u003cbr\u003e2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896–1920 – Roland-François Lack\u003cbr\u003e3 Roads, rivers and canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo – Jean-Louis Pautrot\u003cbr\u003e4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s – Keith Reader\u003cbr\u003e5 Julien Duvivier and interwar ‘banlieutopia’ – Margaret C. Flinn\u003cbr\u003e6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: \u003ci\u003eMénilmontant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLe Sang des bêtes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColloque de chiens\u003c\/i\u003e – Eric Bullot\u003cbr\u003e7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue – Tristan Jean\u003cbr\u003e8 Tati, suburbia and modernity – Malcolm Turvey\u003cbr\u003e9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat’s \u003ci\u003eL’Amour existe\u003c\/i\u003e – Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck\u003cbr\u003e10 Godard’s suburban years – Térésa Faucon\u003cbr\u003e11 The banlieue wore black: postwar French polar, from Becker to Corneau – Philippe Met\u003cbr\u003e12 Erasing the suburbs: the \u003ci\u003egrands ensembles\u003c\/i\u003e in documentary film and television, 1950–80 – Camille Canteux\u003cbr\u003e13 Elusive happiness: screening France’s new towns after 1968 - Derek Schilling\u003cbr\u003e14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau – David Vasse\u003cbr\u003e15 What’s left of the ‘red suburb’? Hervé Le Roux’s \u003ci\u003eReprise\u003c\/i\u003e as case study – Guillaume Soulez\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50066929320279,"sku":"9781526106858","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526106858.jpg?v=1740543724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/screening-the-paris-suburbs-from-the-silent-era-to-the-1990s-9781526106858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}