Screening the Paris suburbs, 1895–1995
Before the banlieue film
by Philippe Met, Annie Fourcaut, Roland-François Lack, Jean-Louis Pautrot, Keith Reader, Margaret Flinn, Eric Bullot, Tristan Jean, Malcolm Turvey, Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Térésa Faucon, Philippe Met, Camille Canteux, Derek Schilling, Guillaume Soulez, David Vasse, Derek Schilling
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The record of French cinema's many forays into the Paris suburbs is far more than a prehistory of the 'film de banlieue'. Decades before the emergence - around 1995 - of a self-styled 'hood' film in France, filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the City of Light for inspiration and content. In the jumble of spaces surrounding Paris they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions. Idyllic or menacing, wide-open or claustrophobic, these locales served divergent ideological and aesthetic programmes. From the bourgeois villas and vacant lots of Louis Feuillade's serials of the 1910s and the bucolic watering holes of 1930s poetic realism, to the vast post-war housing estates showcased by Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati and Maurice Pialat, the gritty noir décors of Jean-Pierre Melville or the sleek, post-modern new towns shot by Éric Rohmer, the Paris suburbs came to form a key site in the national imaginary. For the first time in English, the fifteen contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long screen history, one that intersects with such themes central to French cultural modernity as class conflict, leisure, boredom, alienation and anti-authoritarianism. Diverse in focus and expansive in scope, this book will interest students and enthusiasts of French film and cultural studies as well as of urban/suburban studies.
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The record of French cinema's many forays into the Paris suburbs is far more than a prehistory of the 'film de banlieue'. Decades before the emergence - around 1995 - of a self-styled 'hood' film in France, filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the City of Light for inspiration and content. In the jumble of spaces surrounding Paris they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions. Idyllic or menacing, wide-open or claustrophobic, these locales served divergent ideological and aesthetic programmes. From the bourgeois villas and vacant lots of Louis Feuillade's serials of the 1910s and the bucolic watering holes of 1930s poetic realism, to the vast post-war housing estates showcased by Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati and Maurice Pialat, the gritty noir décors of Jean-Pierre Melville or the sleek, post-modern new towns shot by Éric Rohmer, the Paris suburbs came to form a key site in the national imaginary. For the first time in English, the fifteen contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long screen history, one that intersects with such themes central to French cultural modernity as class conflict, leisure, boredom, alienation and anti-authoritarianism. Diverse in focus and expansive in scope, this book will interest students and enthusiasts of French film and cultural studies as well as of urban/suburban studies.
Author Biography
Keith Reader is Professor of French at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Derek Schilling is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University; ; ; Derek Schilling is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2018
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526106858 / 152610685X
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 mm
- Reference Code7486
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