Title: The new face of political cinema : commitment in French film since 1995 /
Authors: O'Shaughnessy, Martin
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Motion pictures France History; Motion pictures Political aspects France History.
Abstract: O'Shaughnessy argues that by finding stylistic and narrative strategies relevant to current political and social concerns, French cinema is contributing in original ways to the restoration of the grounds for socio-political critique, and in doing so, is helping to reinvent political cinema.
Contents: 1. Contexts -- 2. Debates -- 3. A genealogy of contemporary oppositional cinema -- 4. Class in pieces -- 5. Class reassembled? -- 6. An aesthetic of the fragment -- 7. Melodramatic politics -- 8. Elusive capital.