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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"French Cinema"”.
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Ironic images of motherhood in contemporary French cinema
There is an increasing trend for contemporary French cinema to feature the family unit. As such, it now serves as the ideal locus for criticism and commentary on individual family members. One of the key members, who functions as the basis for many analytical conversations in the real world, is the …
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An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War
… provides an analysis of the politics of French cinema in the 1950s and 1960s from the socio-historical perspective of the Franco-Algerian War. By combining close visual analysis of the Left Bank Group’s cinema, discourse analysis of contemporaneous film theoretical debates, and archival …
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Comedy and Social Change in French Cinema 1990-2010: The Rise of the Rom-com
… proliferation of a highly popular genre in French cinema over the past two decades. While genre cinema, French and otherwise, and especially comedy have historically been under-examined in France, this study contributes to a gradual shift towards the application of more traditionally …
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From Surrealist Film to Surrealism in Film (Surrealism in the 20th Century Commercial Cinema)
… films. Chapter VI, ""Surrealism in Contemporary French Cinema,"" explores the dispersion of Surrealism in contemporary French cinema, while the conclusions point to other possibilities of research in various world cinemas. Covering a period of eight decades, this research puts into perspective …
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Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
… examines the discursive strategies through which French intellectual critics exploited gender, nationalism and class as tools in the production of French high-brow and avant-garde film culture. To date, scholars have largely studied French cinema of the inter-war period through the now canonical …
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Framing Sex and Spatiality in French Queer Cinema: Nolot, Dieutre, Guiraudie
… and spatiality through the lens of contemporary French queer cinema. While film and media studies has recently seen the critical ascendance of spatial, embodied and proprioceptive theory on the one hand, and a burgeoning interest in queer sexualities, counterpublics and relational practices on …
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Space, place and the past: the construction of national cinema and identity in the contemporary 'film de patrimoine' in France
This thesis aims to identify a recent genre in French cinema, namely the film de patrimoine. Through a consideration of the social, cultural and economic context and textual features of this body of films, I intend to develop a critical language appropriate for the analysis of this genre. While the …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… anchored in the idea of a ‘female Odysseus’ in French cinema where the films analysed explore space, the female body, and female subjectivity. It investigates chronologically selected films by Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda, which form an intriguing dialogue in cinema, reflecting the filmmakers’ …
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Desire for Transformation: The Actualization of Self-identity Through Change In the Films <em>Raw</em> and <em>Titane</em>
… a distinction between the films of The New French Extreme and Ducournau’s <em>Raw </em>and <em>Titane</em>, in their handling of gender and identity, primarily in regard to how these films handle transformation and self-identification. Ducournau explores themes of cannibalism, the linking of …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… and the female criminal in early American and French crime films within the context of social and technological modernity related to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of communicative technology, early innovations in transportation and the increased accessibility and …
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Mobile limits and the limits of mobility in French representations of urban space
… proposes a new approach to conceptualizing the French city through a series of readings on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, cinema and theory. This project uncovers liminal protagonists in French urban space, analyzes their Certelian practices, and considers what happens when they …
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Kieślowski's Unknown: How Kieślowski's late films were influenced by his Polishness and his early Polish films
Krzysztof Kieślowski is regarded as one of the most universal Polish film directors. However, the author wishes to argue that his work was deeply rooted in his sense of Polishness. In terms of research methods, this thesis utilises the existing abundant li terature on nation and nationalism to …