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Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur

Editat de Alastair Phillips, Ginette Vincendeau
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2017
This essay collection offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, television, history, architecture and literature, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau introduce, challenge and extend ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity. Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, this unique text demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory.
This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, French Studies, European or Transnational Studies, Visual Studies, and Urban Studies. Fresh and engaging, this fascinating text will also appeal to lovers of French cinema and the capital city that comprises its major home. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844578177
ISBN-10: 1844578178
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: British Film Institute
Colecția British Film Institute
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements.- Beyond theflâneur: an introduction; Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.- PART 1: LOCATIONS.- The Eiffel Tower: a Parisian film star; Nicoleta Bazgan.- Working-class Paris and post-war noir:Les Portes de la nuit; Thomas Pillard.- Thecavesof Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1950s French cinema; Sébastien Layerle.-Le Signe du lion: Paris in the summer of 1959; Michel Marie.- Truffaut’s apartments;Hilary Radner and Alistair Fox.- The New Wave hotel; Roland-François Lack.- The vanishing of Les Halles;Catherine E. Clark.- The Parisianbanlieueon screen: so close, yet so far; Ginette Vincendeau.- PART 2: CHARACTERS.- Maigret from across the Channel; Charlotte Brunsdon.- Parisian cinephiles and the Mac-Mahon; Leila Wimmer.- Beyond theflâneuse:the uniqueness ofCléo de 5 à 7; Jennifer Wallace.- Amateur filmmakers’ Paris: home movies at the Forum des images; Roger Odin.- Theconcierge in contemporary French Cinema; Raphaëlle Moine.- Parisian lovers in the contemporary romcom; Mary Harrod.- The enduring glamour of the Parisienne; Stephen Gundle.- PART 3: HISTORY.- Charles Dickens’s Two Cities; Colin Jones.- From Meryon to Ulmer’sBluebeard:a Baudelairian iconography; Jean-Loup Bourget.- Site of infamy: the Vel’ d’Hiv in French cinema; Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.- ‘Unremarkable Paris’: Jacques Becker’s Urban Everyday; Alastair Phillips.- Television and the renewal of Paris, from official discourse to social criticism; Hélène Jannière.- Parisian building sites (1945-1975): from modernity to abstraction; Marie Gaimard and Marguerite Vappereau.- The mirror of a city: the ‘Parisian Collection’ of the Forum des images; Jean-Yves de Lépinay.- INTERVIEW.- Filming Paris: an interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.- Contributors.- Select bibliography.

Notă biografică

Alastair Phillips is Associate Professor (Reader) in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His books on French cinema includeCity of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939(2004),Rififi(2009),Journeys of Desire, European Actors in Hollywood(co-edited with Ginette Vincendeau, 2006) andA Companion to Jean Renoir(co-edited with Ginette Vincendeau, 2013). He is an editor ofScreenand currently working on a book about the films of Jacques Becker.
Ginette Vincendeau is Professor in Film Studies at King’s College London and a regular contributor toSight and Sound. She has published widely on French cinema and was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to French Culture. Among her books areStars and Stardom in French Cinema(2000),Jean-Pierre Melville, An American in Paris(2003),La Haine(2005) andBrigitte Bardot(2013). She co-edited Journeys of Desire: European Actorsin Hollywood (2006) andA Companion to Jean Renoir(2013) with Alastair Phillips andThe French New Wave: Critical Landmarks(2009) with Peter Graham. Her current research is on the filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara.

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Paris is the most iconic and frequently painted, photographed and filmed city in the world. Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, history, architecture and literature, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau introduce, challenge and extend ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity. 
Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, this vibrant collection: 

• provides innovative angles on how films deploy the French capital beyond its function as glamorous background
• explores how filmmakers both construct and recycle its status as an ‘iconic capital’ 
• considers the specific identities of Parisians on screen
• demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory. 
Fresh and engaging, this fascinating resource will appeal to all students, scholars and lovers of French cinema and the capital city that comprises its major home.

Caracteristici

  • Richly illustrated with film stills throughout
  • Covers a wealth of auteur and popular French, US and British films
  • Examines a wide selection of topics relating to the architectural and social fabric of Paris, the character of its inhabitants, and the city's social and political history
  • Provides innovative angles on how films and television programmes deploy the French capital beyond its function as glamorous background
  • Explores how filmmakers both construct and recycle its status as an 'iconic capital'
  • Considers the specific identities of Parisians on screen
  • Offers a strong interdisciplinary approach that provides numerous fresh angles on the subject of Paris on screen
  • Contains an original interview with Amelie director Jean Pierre Jeunet