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Subtitle: Franco-British cinematic relations
By: edited by Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781845457495
Description: A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic realtionship. As this collection of essays reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between British critical esteem for the films of France and French dismissal of 'le cinéma British', or the success of Ken Loach et al. at the French box office and the relative dearth of French movies on British screens. In fact, there has long been a rich and productive dialogue between these two cultures in which both their clear differences and their shared concerns have played a vital role. This book provides an overview of the history of these relations from the early days of sound cinema to the present day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Franco-British Cinematic Relations: An Overview / Lucy Mazdon; title: Industry and Institutions. The Exhibition, Distribution and Reception of French Films in Britain in the 1930s / Vincent Porter; title: The 'Cinematization' of Sound Cinema in Britain and the Dubbing into French of Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934) / Charles O'Brien; title: Une Entente Cordiale? A Brief History of the Anglo-French Film Coproduction Agreement, 1965/1979 / Justin Smith; title: Channel-crossing Festivals: The Cases of the French Film Festival, U.K. and Dinard's Festival du Film Britannique / Cecile Renaud; title: The Language of Love? How the French Sold Lady Chatterley's Lover (Back) to British Audiences / Catherine Wheatley; title: Reception and Perceptions. Disciplining the Nouvelle Vague: Censoring A Bout de Souffle  and Other Early French New Wave Films (1956/1962) / Daniel Biltereyst; title: Contents.  The Reception of the Nouvelle Vague in Britain / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; title: 'New Waves, New Publics?': The Nouvelle Vague, French Stars and British Cinema / Sarah Street; title: Mirror Image: French Reflections of British Cinema / Ian Christie; title: 'Incredibly French'?: Nation as an Interpretative Context for Extreme Cinema / Melanie Selfe; title: British Audiences and 1990s French New Realism: La Vie  Revue des Anges as Cinematic Slum Realism / Ingrid Stigsdotter; title: Personnel and Performance. "The Meaning of That French Word Chic": Annabella's Franco-British Stardom / Jonathan Driskell; title: 'Those Frenchies Seek Him Everywhere': David Niven in  Franco-British Cinematic Relations / Cristina Johnston; title: Truffaut in London / Robert Murphy; title: Jane Birkin: From English Rose to French Icon / Leila Wimmer; title: The French Resistance Through British Eyes : From 'Allo 'Allo! to Charlotte Gray /  Ginette Vincendeau; title: 'In the Ghetto': Space, Race and Marginalization in  French and British 'Urban' Films La Haine and Bullet Boy / Jim Morrissey.