{"product_id":"screening-the-paris-suburbs-9781526143594","title":"Screening the Paris Suburbs","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecades 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in English, contributors to \u003cem\u003eScreening the Paris Suburbs\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThemes central to French cultural modernity—class conflict, leisure, boredom, and anti-authoritarianism—cut across the fifteen chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598129348844,"sku":"9781526143594","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526143594-screening-the-paris-suburbs.jpg?v=1777962505","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/screening-the-paris-suburbs-9781526143594","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}