edited by Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, and Hilary Radner
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xix, 691 pages ;
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25 cm
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Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: Contemporary French cinema - continuity and change in a global context / Alistair Fox, with Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, and Hilary Radner -- The political economy of French cinema: attendance and movie theaters / Laurent Creton -- "Do we have a right to exist?" French cinema, culture, and world trade / Jonathan Buchsbaum -- Historicizing contemporary French blockbusters / Charlie Michael -- Moving between screens: television and cinema in France, 1990-2010 / Guillaume Soulez -- Contemporary political cinema / Martin O'Shaughnessy -- Diasporic and postcolonial cinema in France from the 1990s to the present / Will Higbee -- The veterans of the new wave, their heirs, and contemporary French cinema / Michel Marie -- Was there a young French cinema? / Jacqueline Nacache -- Auteurism, personal cinema, and the Fémis generation: the case of François Ozon / Alistair Fox -- Contemporary French comedy as social laboratory / Raphaëlle Moine -- Between tradition and innovation: French crime films during the 2000s / Thomas Pillard -- Contemporary French horror cinema: from absence to embodied presence / Guy Austin -- The historical film and contemporary French cinema: representing the past in the present / Hilary Radner -- Major stars, the heritage film, and patrimonial values in contemporary French cinemas / Gwénaëlle Le Gras -- French animated cinema, 1990 to present / Richard Neupert -- Contemporary French documentary: a renaissance, 1992-2012 / Alison J. Murray Levine -- Pitiful men, instrumental women: the reconfiguration of masculine domination in contemporary popular French cinema / Geneviève Sellier -- French women directors since the 1990s: trends, new developments, and challenges / Brigitte Rollet -- Modes of masculinity in contemporary French cinema / Tim Palmer -- Hors milieu: queer and beyond / Nick Rees-Roberts -- Sexually explicit French cinema: genre, gender, and sex / Kelley Conway -- Booking passages: adventures in adaptation in recent French cinema / T. Jefferson Kline -- The return of theatricality in French cinema of the 1990s: a new imbrication of comedy and melodrama / Marguerite Chabrol -- Soundscapes of loss: songs in contemporary French cinema / Phil Powrie -- From the margins to the center: French stardom and ethnicity / Ginette Vincendeau -- An invention with a future: French cinema after the end of cinema / Martine Beugnet -- The amateur in cinema, in France, since 1990: definitions, issues, and trends / Roger Odin