France in focus
Subtitle: film and national identity
By: edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Sue Harris.
Contributors: Harris, Sue.; Ezra, Elizabeth, 1965-
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Motion pictures -- France -- History.; National characteristics, French, in motion pictures.; France -- In motion pictures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229), filmography (p. 207-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the French exception / Sue Harris and Elizabeth Ezra; title: The reconstruction of French cinema / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas; title: 'Qu'était-ce que le cinéma, Jean-Luc Godard?' An analysis of the cinemas(s) at work in and around Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma / Michael Witt; title: Le Chêne et la Roseau : the French communist critics and the New Wave / Laurent Marie; title: France and EU policy-making on visual culture : new opportunities for national identity? / Louise Strode; title: Jewish myths and stereotypes in the cinema of Julien Duvivier / Simon P. Sibelman; title: National cinemas and the body politic / Susan Hayward; title: Heritage, nostalgia and the woman's film : the case of Diane Kurys / Carrie Tarr; title: National, history and gender in the films of Jean Renoir / Martin O'Shaughnessy; title: Framing Dreyfus : Méliès and documentary realism / Elizabeth Ezra; title: The case of the undead emperor : familial and national identity in Jacques Becker's Groupi Mains-Rouges / Florianne Wild; title: Truffaut's imagined community / Russell King; title: Beineix's Diva and the French cultural unconscious / John Izod; title: Negotiating conformity : tales of ordinary evil / Martine Beugnet.