Screening the Paris Suburbs - From the Silent Era to the 1990s

This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the 'film de banlieue'.

List of contents

Introduction - Philippe Met and Derek Schilling
1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80 - Annie Fourcaut
2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920 - Roland-François Lack
3 Roads, rivers and canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo - Jean-Louis Pautrot
4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s - Keith Reader
5 Julien Duvivier and interwar 'banlieutopia' - Margaret C. Flinn
6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens - Eric Bullot
7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue - Tristan Jean
8 Tati, suburbia and modernity - Malcolm Turvey
9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe - Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck
10 Godard's suburban years - Térésa Faucon
11 The banlieue wore black: postwar French polar, from Becker to Corneau - Philippe Met
12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80 - Camille Canteux
13 Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968 - Derek Schilling
14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau - David Vasse
15 What's left of the 'red suburb'? Hervé Le Roux's Reprise as case study - Guillaume Soulez
Index

About the author

Derek Schilling is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University

Summary

This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the ‘film de banlieue’. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Met, Philippe Schilling Met
• Assisted by: Philippe Met (Editor), Derek Schilling (Editor), Schilling Derek (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781526143594
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4359-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, France, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Paris (City), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Urban communities, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism