{"product_id":"studies-in-french-cinema-uk-perspectives-1985-2010-9781841503233","title":"Studies in French Cinema: UK perspectives,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudies in French Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e looks 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.  \u003cp\u003eCovering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe find, here, an overview of French cinema from the 1930s to the early twenty-first century that offers a complex and multilayered vision of its field of study, which draws on questions of gender, nation, sexuality, community, and identity. Inevitably, while each of these articles raises fundamental questions that remain relevant to those researching and teaching French Film studies, the dialogue that emerges through the inclusion of the six pieces together is particularly thought provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Cristina Johnston, Contemporary French Civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction – W. Higbee and S. Leahy   \u003cstrong\u003ePART I\u003c\/strong\u003e   Chapter1: 'Pierrot le fou' and post-New Wave French cinema – Jill Forbes   Chapter 2: National Cinemas and the Body Politic – Susan Hayward   Chapter 3: Unfamiliar Places: 'heterospection' and recent French films on children – Phil Powrie   Chapter 4: The circular ruins? Frontiers, exile and the nation in Renoir’s 'Le Crime de Monsieur Lange' – Keith Reader   Chapter 5: Beurz N the Hood: The articulation of Beur and French identities in 'Le Thé au harem d'Archimède' and 'Hexagone' – Carrie Tarr   Chapter 6: Community, Nostalgia and the Spectacle of Masculinity – Ginette Vincendeau   \u003cstrong\u003ePART II\u003c\/strong\u003e   Chapter 7: Asserting text, context and intertext: Jill Forbes and French Film Studies – Julia Dobson   Chapter 8: Jill Forbes: The continued conversation – Sue Harris   Chapter 9: Political Threads and Material Memory: Mayo’s Wardrobe for 'Casque d’or' (1952) – Jennie Cousins   Chapter 10: ‘Une vraie famille Benetton’: Maternal metaphors of nation in 'Il y a longtemps que je t’aime' (Claudel, 2008) - a response to Susan Hayward – Sarah Leahy   Chapter 11: Phil Powrie: French film studies as a heterotopic field – Ann Davies   Chapter 12: Men in Unfamiliar Places: A response to Phil Powrie – Alison Smith   Chapter 13: To elicit and elude: The film writing of Keith Reader – Douglas Morrey   Chapter 14: Sexuality (and Resnais): A response to Keith Reader – Emma Wilson   Chapter 15: Of spaces and difference in 'La Graine et le mulet' (Kechiche, 2007): A dialogue with Carrie Tarr – Will Higbee   Chapter 16: Cinema, the second sex and studies of French women’s films in the 2000s – Kate Ince   Chapter 17: The bafflement of Gabin and Raimu and the breathlessness of Belmondo: a dialogue with the work of Ginette Vincendeau – Martin O'Shaughnessy   Chapter 18: Placing French Film History – Alastair Phillips   \u003cstrong\u003ePART III\u003c\/strong\u003e   Chapter 19: To the distant observer – Jill Forbes   Chapter 20: Censoring French ‘Cinéma de qualité’ — 'Bel-Ami' (Louis Daquin, 1954) – Susan Hayward   Chapter 21: Raymond Bernard's 'Les Misérables' (1934) – Keith Reader   Chapter 22: Jewish-Arab Relations in French and Maghrebi Cinema(s) – Carrie Tarr   Chapter 23: The Frenchness of French Cinema: The language of national identity, from the regional to the trans-national – Ginette Vincendeau   Chapter 24: Four decades of teaching and research in French cinema – Phil Powrie","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042922529111,"sku":"9781841503233","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841503233.jpg?v=1750956239","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-french-cinema-uk-perspectives-1985-2010-9781841503233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}