Screening the Paris Suburbs

Name: Screening the Paris Suburbs
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Decades before the rise of the French 'hood' film in the mid-1990s, Screening the Paris Suburbs explores how French filmmakers discovered rich inspiration in the Paris suburbs. From bourgeois villas and charming riverside cafés to post-war housing estates and new towns, these diverse settings provided the backdrop for a century of cinematic storytelling. This volume examines the suburb as both a physical and ideological space, reflected in the works of iconic directors like Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Central themes such as class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism are intricately woven throughout the fifteen insightful chapters.
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Ideal for scholars and enthusiasts of French cinema, cultural geography, and film studies, particularly those interested in the interplay between place, society and film narrative.

This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the 'film de banlieue'.

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Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs, they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes, and social types in which to anchor their fictions, from bourgeois villas and bucolic riverside cafés to post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns.

For the first time in English, contributors to Screening the Paris Suburbs address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century.

Themes central to French cultural modernity—class conflict, leisure, boredom, and anti-authoritarianism—cut across the fifteen chapters.

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Critics praise this edited collection as a significant contribution to the understanding of geography and French cinema. It reconsiders classic French films through the lens of suburbia as a vital element of mise-en-scène and narrative context. The volume notably integrates histories of migration and regional cultures, offering a multidimensional view of France's 'space of periphery'. Contributors successfully link historical and postcolonial discourses, enriching appreciation of French cinematic spaces beyond Paris's centre.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526143594

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 December 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: 36 black & white illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Philippe Met
Edited by Derek Schilling

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 248

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Philippe Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Derek Schilling is Professor of French at Johns Hopkins University