BackA Companion to Contemporary French Cinema
(book in English)
by Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine and Hilary Radner
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- French cinema, 1990s, 2000s
- Publishing Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Collection
- Companions to National Cinemas
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 712 pages • 194 €
7 x 9 ¾ inches (18 x 24.5 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-1-4443-3899-7
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Book Presentation:
A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day.
Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema
Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters
Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema–theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking
Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies
Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time
See the publisher website: Wiley Blackwell
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