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France in Focus - Film and National Identity (Paperback, First)
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France in Focus - Film and National Identity (Paperback, First)
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This volume brings together the work of leading film scholars from
the UK, France and the US who assess a dominant art form's
engagement with expressions of national identity at key moments in
French cinematic history, from its origins at the end of the
nineteenth century, through the inter-war period, the Occupation,
the post-Liberation era, and the New Wave, up to the current state
of the industry. The essays go against the grain in their attempts
to construct an alternative history of French cinema, whether by
bringing to light overlooked films or by examining well-known,
indeed even 'over-exposed' films or filmmakers in a new light. In
re-evaluating the work of Georges MEliEs, Jacques Becker, Jean
Renoir, Diane Kurys, FranAois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and
Jean-Jacques Beineix, the contributors to this volume focus on the
paradoxical centrality of the marginal in constructions of national
identity. In doing so, they reveal the structure of 'l'exception
franAaise', in which French culture makes an exception for itself
by suppressing alterity within it. This multi-faceted assessment of
French visual culture and identity will be of interest to students
and scholars in French studies, media and film studies, cultural
studies and French history.
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