French B Movies

Author : David A. Pettersen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253064905

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French B Movies by David A. Pettersen Pdf

In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film. French B Movies proposes that French banlieue films, far from being a fringe genre, offer a privileged site from which to understand the current state of the French film industry in an age of globalization. This gritty style appears in popular arthouse films such as Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and Bande de filles (Girlhood) along with the major Netflix hit series Lupin. David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features of banlieue cinema with genre formulas associated with both Hollywood and Black cultural models, as well as how transnational genre hybridizations, such as B movies, have become part of the ecosystem of the French film industry. By combining film analysis, cultural history, critical theory, and industry studies, French B Movies reveals how featuring banlieues is as much about trying to imagine new identities and production models for French cinema as it is about representation.

Author : David A. Pettersen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253064912

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French B Movies by David A. Pettersen Pdf

In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film. French B Movies proposes that French banlieue films, far from being a fringe genre, offer a privileged site from which to understand the current state of the French film industry in an age of globalization. This gritty style appears in popular arthouse films such as Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and Bande de filles (Girlhood) along with the major Netflix hit series Lupin. David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features of banlieue cinema with genre formulas associated with both Hollywood and Black cultural models, as well as how transnational genre hybridizations, such as B movies, have become part of the ecosystem of the French film industry. By combining film analysis, cultural history, critical theory, and industry studies, French B Movies reveals how featuring banlieues is as much about trying to imagine new identities and production models for French cinema as it is about representation.

Author : Nolwenn Mingant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438488561

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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East by Nolwenn Mingant Pdf

Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, from trade and government publications to interviews, Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East traces the circulation of Hollywood films across the region from the early twentieth century to the present. Originally introduced by French distributors, Hollywood films have been a key component of film culture in North Africa and the Middle East. These films became a favored mode of entertainment during the first half of the century as the major US film studios built a strong distribution structure. After World War II, the changing geopolitical context of decolonization pushed US distributors out of the market. Hollywood films, however, have continued to be favored by audiences. Today, in a landscape that also includes Egyptian and Indian films, Hollywood remains a relevant force in the region’s film culture, experienced by audiences in myriad ways from the pirate markets of North Africa to state-of-the-art theatres in the United Arab Emirates.

Author : Gott Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474466547

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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb by Gott Michael Gott Pdf

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of France's first filmmakers of North African descent and his career as a director and producer now spans over 35 years. Remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements and narrative settings, Bouchareb's work has engaged with and reflected on a variety of crucial social, political and historical issues; from the role of colonial troops in the French army during the Second World War, to terrorism in contemporary Europe. This volume examines Bouchareb's films from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring key influences on his output and considering new theoretical approaches to his filmmaking.

Author : Michael Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : IND:30000026370464

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Michael Singer's Film Directors by Michael Singer Pdf

Author : Michael Singer
Publisher : Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0943728606

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Film Directors by Michael Singer Pdf

Author : Robin Buss
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015032187604

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French Film Noir by Robin Buss Pdf

Crime and punishment on the dark side of French society, as reflected in the silver screen.

Author : Richard Neupert
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299217037

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A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert Pdf

The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. A History of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Richard Neupert first tracks the precursors to New Wave cinema, showing how they provided blueprints for those who would follow. He then demonstrates that it was a core group of critics-turned-directors from the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma—especially François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Jean-Luc Godard—who really revealed that filmmaking was changing forever. Later, their cohorts Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast continued in their own unique ways to expand the range and depth of the New Wave. In an exciting new chapter, Neupert explores the subgroup of French film practice known as the Left Bank Group, which included directors such as Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda. With the addition of this new material and an updated conclusion, Neupert presents a comprehensive review of the stunning variety of movies to come out of this important era in filmmaking.

Author : Mary Harrod
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030709945

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Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood by Mary Harrod Pdf

Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.

Author : Éric Rohmer
Publisher : Viking Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015006588498

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Six Moral Tales by Éric Rohmer Pdf

"A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them"--Container.

Author : Melissa E. Biggs,Melissa Biggs Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015037426106

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French Films, 1945-1993 by Melissa E. Biggs,Melissa Biggs Bradley Pdf

To the French, the cinema is an art form. At their best, they have established cinema verite, mastered literary filmmaking and film noir, invented the New Wave, and produced such unique and unclassified geniuses as Truffaut and Tati.From Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise), which was made in the shadows of the occupation and opened as the Allies liberated Paris, to such modern films as Les Nuits fauves (Savage Nights), the first major cinematic treatment of AIDS, the 400 films here reflect the broad range of French filmmaking. Organized by French title, with see references from English and alternate titles, each entry includes year of release, cast and production credits, running time, and an essay blending plot synopsis and critical commentary, all fully indexed.

Author : David A. Pettersen
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783168521

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Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France by David A. Pettersen Pdf

First book to focus on Americanism and its consideration of French film and literature The book is organized around individual figures, texts, and films, making it easy to adopt for individual units in courses. The book is written in clear, accessible, and jargon-free language. The book brings a new and innovative transatlantic perspective to 1930s French culture. The books offers new perspectives on important figures that we thought we knew well. The book mixes cultural history with the analysis of individual films and novels in a way that is engaging to read.

Author : Berlitz Guides
Publisher : Berlitz Publishing
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Travel
ISBN : 2831517095

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France by Berlitz Guides Pdf

Author : Emily Zants
Publisher : Emtext
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029095430

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Creative Encounters with French Films by Emily Zants Pdf

Author : Sidney Pink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000000104344

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So You Want to Make Movies by Sidney Pink Pdf