Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France

Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France PDF Author: David A. Pettersen
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178316851X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Book Description
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.

Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France

Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France PDF Author: David A. Pettersen
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178316851X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Book Description
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.

MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938

MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938 PDF Author: Caroline M. Riley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520386914
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Book Description
What was Three Centuries of American Art? -- Loaning across oceans : symbolism, risk, and value -- Creating a contemporary American art history across centuries -- Art on paper -- Appendix : tables of artworks included in Three Centuries of American Art.

Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France PDF Author: Mary Harrod
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031391950
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
Zusammenfassung: This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television's remarkable popularity not only within but - more novelly for European audiovisual narratives - outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place in France's production landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms as revelatory of broader tendencies in media production and circulation in Europe and beyond, the collection explores emergent influential players (Omar Sy, Camille Cottin, Alexandre Aja and Fanny Herrero), companies such as Netflix and Gaumont, and new genres, identities and representations on screen. It thus draws together a body of new research by international experts in French and European media production to analyse popular film and television series from France through a postnational lens with regards to both economic and institutional norms and to culture as a whole

Women and the City in French Literature and Culture

Women and the City in French Literature and Culture PDF Author: Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Book Description
Interdisciplinarity: this book covers a range of media and genres from cinema to journalism to novels and a range of disciplines from feminism, film studies, Francophone studies, history, etc., which allows readers to access a particularly extensive range of disciplines within one volume and to make informed comparisons. Transhistoricism: the chronological range of essays included in this journal from the medieval period through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the present demonstrates that women have always managed to access their own territory within the masculinised urban environment and this encourages readers to rethink previous gendered assumptions about women and the city. Feminism: the essays here form part of the wider movement in academic research to redress the gendered imbalance of perspectives on a range of subjects: here allowing us to look anew at French and Francophone culture and history as part of this feminist rewriting.

Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture

Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture PDF Author: Helena Chadderton
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786831201
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Book Description
In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world. Composed of eleven essays and a contextualising introduction, this volume is interdisciplinary in its treatment of engagement in a variety of forms, as it reassesses the relationship between different types of cultural production and society as it is played out in the twenty-first century. With a focus on both the development of different cultural forms (Part 1) and on the particular crises that have attracted the attention of cultural practitioners (Part 2), this volume maps and analyses some of the ways in which cultural texts of all kinds are being used to respond to, engage with and challenge crises in the contemporary Francophone world.

Taking Up Space

Taking Up Space PDF Author: Siham Bouamer
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839091
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Book Description
This is the first English-language volume on representations of women at work in contemporary French cultural productions. It covers a variety of genres: literature, cinema and television, journalism, bande dessinée. Draws from a wide range of work experiences from salaried work in academic, artistic, corporate and working-class worlds to unpaid—reproductive, domestic—labour, illegal activities and activism.

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb PDF Author: Gott Michael Gott
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474466540
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Book Description
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.

French B Movies

French B Movies PDF Author: David A. Pettersen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253064910
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Book Description
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.

The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing

The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing PDF Author: Jonathan Lewis
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786833050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Book Description
This book will enlighten readers on the importance of literature in contributing to historical knowledge. Will provide readers with comprehensive understanding of the development of writing by French authors of Algerian origin, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day. Emphasizes the contemporary relevance of the Algerian War and the afterlives of empire on twenty-first century society and culture.

Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds

Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds PDF Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Book Description
Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women’s writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have experienced or reflected upon the experience of transnational movement. Due to the particularity of their relationship to home, and the consequent impact of this on their experience of displacement, the study of women's mobility opens up new questions in our understanding of the movement from place to place, and in our broader understanding of colonial and postcolonial worlds. Addressing the proximities and overlaps that exist between the experiences of women exiles, migrants, expatriates and travellers, the collected essays in this book seek to challenge the usefulness, relevance or validity of such terms for conceptualising today’s complex patterns of transnational mobility and the gendered identities produced therein.