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film genres
French filmmaking
housing projects
modernisation
new towns
social class
suburbs and suburbanisation
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- ISBN 9781526106858
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Decades 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.
Philippe Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Derek Schilling is Professor of French at Johns Hopkins University
