A01=Julia Dobson
academic film criticism
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Julia Dobson
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=APFB
Category=ATFB
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
detective narratives
Dominique Cabrera
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
film directors
France
gendered creative identity
Laetitia Masson
Language_English
Marion Vernoux
Noemie Lvovsky
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
romantic comedy
SN=French Film Directors Series
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780719072185
- Dimensions: 123 x 186mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship between the privileged status of the auteur and questions of genre, gender and cinematic production in France today. This important contribution to understanding the shifting landscapes of contemporary French film identifies an essential intermediacy in the films of these directors, which works to undo a series of dominant oppositions, generic template and contestation, public collectivity and personal intimacy, to offer a new perspective on the location of the political in contemporary French cinema. The four chapters provide detailed critical analysis of films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noémie Lvovsky and Marion Vernoux, and present common thread including the possible construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of romance narratives and the role of nostalgia, to argue that their work uses popular genres in order to challenge dominant cultural representation that resonates beyond the immediate parameters of contemporary French cinema. This book will be of interest to researchers working in French and European cinema, to students of Film Studies and French and Francophone Studies, and to film enthusiasts.
Julia Dobson is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sheffield
