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The New Face of Political Cinema : Commitment in French Film since 1995 / Martin O’Shaughnessy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845453220
  • 9780857456908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6580944
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Contexts -- 2. Debates -- 3. A Genealogy of Contemporary Oppositional Cinema -- 4. Class in Pieces -- 5. Class Reassembled? -- 6. An Aesthetic of the Fragment -- 7. Melodramatic Politics -- 8. Elusive Capital -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal characteristics and its originality. This is what this book provides. It engages with leading directors such as Cantet, Tavernier, Dumont, Kassovitz, Zonca and Guédiguian, takes in a range of less well known but important figures and strays across the Belgian border to engage with the seminal work of the Dardenne brothers. It shows how the works discussed are helping to reinvent political cinema by finding stylistic and narrative strategies adequate to the contemporary context.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780857456908

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Contexts -- 2. Debates -- 3. A Genealogy of Contemporary Oppositional Cinema -- 4. Class in Pieces -- 5. Class Reassembled? -- 6. An Aesthetic of the Fragment -- 7. Melodramatic Politics -- 8. Elusive Capital -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal characteristics and its originality. This is what this book provides. It engages with leading directors such as Cantet, Tavernier, Dumont, Kassovitz, Zonca and Guédiguian, takes in a range of less well known but important figures and strays across the Belgian border to engage with the seminal work of the Dardenne brothers. It shows how the works discussed are helping to reinvent political cinema by finding stylistic and narrative strategies adequate to the contemporary context.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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