BackGesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema
(book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- body, gesture, 1970s, French cinema
- Publishing Date
- 2023 (September 29, 2023)
- Publisher
- Peter Lang (P.I.E.)
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 304 pages • 68 €
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-1-8007-9638-6
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Book Presentation:
This book examines the aesthetics of gesture in a selection of French post-New Wave films, revealing how cinema can be used to show the impact of social conditioning on the body, especially in the aftermath of May 1968. These filmmakers developed radical cinematic approaches to represent the body, attitudes and postures.
About the Author:
François Giraud is a Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he currently teaches documentary aesthetics, theories of intermediality as well as French language and culture. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His most recent publications examine the intermedial and gestural aesthetics of major French filmmakers, including Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and Alain Cavalier.
See the publisher website: Peter Lang (P.I.E.)
> On a related topic:
Le Cinéma des français (1979)
La 5ème république, 1958-1978
Le Cinéma des français (1974)
1969-1974, les années Pompidou
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