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The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 (Paperback)
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The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 (Paperback)
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In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch
and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made
in France before, during, and after World War II, paying particular
attention to the Occupation years (1940-44). The authors contend
that the films produced from the 1930s until 1956-when the state
began to subsidize the movie industry, facilitating the emergence
of an "auteur cinema"-are important, both as historical texts and
as sources of entertainment.Citing more than 300 films and
providing many in-depth interpretations, Burch and Sellier argue
that films made in France between 1930 and 1956 created a national
imaginary that equated masculinity with French identity. They track
the changing representations of masculinity, explaining how the
strong patriarch who saved fallen or troubled women from themselves
in prewar films gave way to the impotent, unworthy, or incapable
father figure of the Occupation. After the Liberation, the
patriarch reemerged as protector and provider alongside assertive
women who figured as threats not only to themselves but to society
as a whole.
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