BackCinema at the Shore
The Beach in French Film (book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- sea, sociology, French cinema
- Publishing Date
- 2023 (April 26, 2023)
- Publisher
- Peter Lang (P.I.E.)
- Collection
- Classics
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 250 pages • 66 €
6 x 8 ¾ inches (15 x 22.5 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-1-8037-4202-1
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Book Presentation:
From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant definition of space in French cinema and instead explores the industrial, aesthetic and thematic relations of French cinema to the beach.
Examining a range of films from the 1950s to the present day – including popular comedies by Jacques Tati and Patrice Leconte, the lively and ruminative documentaries of Agnès Varda, the classicism of Eric Rohmer, and the provocations of Catherine Breillat – this book showcases the dynamism and importance of the beach as a site for the reconfiguration of French cinematic identity itself. The beach offers a unique crystallization of our attitudes towards nature, culture, the body, space and time. In its constant mobility, its close, yet distinctive, relationship with nature, and its paradoxical centrality in the French cultural imaginary as a site of relaxation and holidays, the beachscape, re-framed and re-imaged by the camera, offers new ways of conceiving of the spatial politics of French cinema.
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De la Nouvelle Vague aux prémices de Mai 68
Travelling sur les années noires (2020)
L'Occupation dans le cinéma français depuis 1945
L'actrice française est une femme comme les autres (2015)
(enfin presque)
by Florence Trédez and Maud Fournier
La société française au miroir de son cinéma (2001)
De la débâcle à la colonisation
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