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Screening the Paris suburbs : from the silent era to the 1990s /

This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the 'film de banlieue'.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Met, Philippe (Editor ), Schilling, Derek (Derek G.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Colección:Manchester Film Studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80; 2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920; 3 Roads, rivers, canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo; 4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s; 5 Julien Duvivier and inter-war 'banlieutopia'; 6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens; 7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue; 8 Tati, suburbia and modernity.
  • 9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe10 Godard's suburban years; 11 The banlieue wore black: post-war French polar, from Becker to Corneau; 12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80; 13 Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968; 14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau; 15 What's left of the 'red suburb'? Hervé Le Roux's Reprise as case study; Index; Plates.