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Informationen zum Autor Geneviève Sellier is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Caen. Her books include Jean Grémillon: Le cinéma est à vous and La Drôle de guerre des sexes du cinéma français, 1930–1956 (with Noël Burch). Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of May ’68 and Its Afterlives and Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. Klappentext A socio-cultural analysis of French New Wave cinema! with a focus on issues of gender and the construction of sexual identities. Zusammenfassung Offers an interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of New Wave has concentrated on the film-makers and their films! this book focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema's formative years! from 1957 to 1962. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Aesthetic Doxa on the New Wave 1 1. A New Generation Marked by the Emergence of Women 11 2. Cinephilia in the 1950s 22 3. Auteur Cinema: An Affair of State 34 4. Contrasting Receptions 41 5. The Precursors 70 6. Between Romanticism and Modernism 95 7. Nostalgia for a Heroic Masculinity 128 8. The Women of the New Wave: Between Modern and Archaic 145 9. Jeanne Moreau: Star of the New Wave and Icon of Modernity 184 10. Brigitte Bardot and the New Wave: An Ambivalent Relationship 199 11. The Independent Filmmakers of the Left Bank: A "Feminist" Alternative 210 Conclusion: The New Wave's Legacy: "Auteur Cinema" 221 Appendix One: Box Office Results 225 Appendix Two: The Press 227 Notes 231 Bibliography 245 Index 253
