This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of
four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the
reductive labels of "auteur cinema" and "popular cinema." Their
work is contextualized within this timely investigation into the
shifting relationship between the privileged status of the auteur
and questions of genre, gender, and cinematic production in France
today. This important contribution to understanding the shifting
landscapes of contemporary French film identifies an essential
intermediacy in the films of these directors, which works to undo a
series of dominant oppositions, generic template and contestation,
public collectivity and personal intimacy, to offer a new
perspective on the location of the political in contemporary French
cinema. The four chapters provide detailed critical analysis of
films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noemie Lvovsky, and
Marion Vernoux, and present common thread including the possible
construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of
romance narratives and the role of nostalgia, to argue that their
work uses popular genres in order to challenge dominant cultural
representation that resonates beyond the immediate parameters of
contemporary French cinema. This book will be of interest to
researchers working in French and European cinema, to students of
Film Studies and French and Francophone Studies, and to film
enthusiasts.
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