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Masculine Singular – French New Wave Cinema

Autor Kristin Ross, Geneviève Sellier
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2008
"Masculine Singular" is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, GeneviEve Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema's formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they "wrote" in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, they explored relations between men and women, and they expressed ambivalence about the new liberated woman. Sellier argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were "the" primary subject of New Wave cinema. Sellier draws on sociological surveys, box office data, and popular magazines of the period, as well as analyses of specific New Wave films. She examines the development of the New Wave movement, its sociocultural and economic context, and the popular and critical reception of such well-known films as "Jules et Jim" and "Hiroshima mon amour." In light of the filmmakers' focus on gender relations, Sellier reflects on the careers of New Wave's iconic female stars, including Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot. Sellier's thorough exploration of early New Wave cinema culminates in her contention that its principal legacy--the triumph of a certain kind of cinephilic discourse and of an "auteur theory" recognizing the director as artist--came at a steep price: creativity was reduced to a formalist game, and affirmation of New Wave cinema's modernity was accompanied by an association of creativity with masculinity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822341925
ISBN-10: 0822341921
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 10 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 160 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Introduction: The Aesthetic Doxa on the New Wave; 1 A New Generation Marked by the Emergence of Women; 2 Cinephilia in the 1950s; 3 Auteur Cinema: An Affair of State; 4 Contrasting Receptions; 5 The Precursors; 6 Between Romanticism and Modernism; 7 Nostalgia for a Heroic Masculinity; 8 The Women of the New Wave: Between Modern and Archaic; 9 Jeanne Moreau: Star of the New Wave and Icon of Modernity; 10 Brigitte Bardot and the New Wave: An Ambivalent Relationship; 11 The Independent Filmmakers of the Left Bank: A “Feminist” Alternative?; Conclusion The New Wave’s Legacy: Auteur Cinema Appendix 1: Box Office Results; Appendix 2: The Press

Recenzii

“This remarkable book will change readers’ view of New Wave cinema. Geneviève Sellier approaches this key movement in French cinema from an original perspective, developing a nuanced yet incisive argument about the links between masculinity, auteurism, and filmic representations.” Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris“Thanks to this unwavering translation, Geneviève Sellier’s bracing exposé has stripped the New Wave of its stylish attire to reveal an unappealing male body. Vigilant and determined, she has trolled a sea of French criticism to net her evidence.”—Dudley Andrew, Yale University

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"Thanks to this unwavering translation, Genevieve Sellier's bracing expose has stripped the New Wave of its stylish attire to reveal an unappealing male body. Vigilant and determined, she has trolled a sea of French criticism to net her evidence."--Dudley Andrew, Yale University

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Geneviève Sellier

Descriere

A major French critic’s analysis of the gender dynamics of French New Wave Cinema of the 1960s