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Informationen zum Autor Alistair Fox is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago. His books include Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (2011), New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (2011), and an English edition and translation of Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost Secret (2013). Michel Marie is Professor Emeritus at l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. His publications include The French New Wave: An Artistic School (1998, translated into English in 2002), Aesthetics of Film (with Jacques Aumont and Alain Bergala, 1983, translated into English in 2002), and Les Grands Pervers au cinéma (2009). Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Her publications include Cinema Genre (2002; translated into English in 2008), Remakes: les films Français à Hollywood (2007), and Les Femmes d'action au cinéma (2010). Hilary Radner is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago. Her publications include Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (2011) and Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Culture (2011). Klappentext A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day.* Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema* Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters* Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking* Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies* Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time Zusammenfassung A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors xii Acknowledgments xviii Editorial Practice xx Introduction: Contemporary French Cinema - Continuity and Change in a Global Context 1 Alistair Fox, with Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, and Hilary Radner Contexts: Institutional, Political, Cultural, and Economic 4 Characteristics of Contemporary French Cinema 4 Thematic Preoccupations 7 Trends, Developments, and the Future of French Cinema 10 Part I Economic, Institutional, and Political Contexts 15 1 The Political Economy of French Cinema: Attendance and Movie Theaters 17 Laurent Creton Changing Patterns of Cinema Attendance 20 Cinematic Production and Its Outcomes 23 The Competitiveness of French Cinema and Market Share 25 Concentration and Diversity 30 The Transformation of the Pool of Theaters 32 The Future of Cinematic Theaters 35 2 "Do We Have the Right to Exist?" French Cinema, Culture, and World Trade 45 Jonathan Buchsbaum France 49 Europe: Television Without Frontiers 51 Cultural Exception: GATT 56 Cultural Diversity: MAI/UNESCO 62 3 Historicizing Contemporary French Blockbusters 74 Charlie Michael A Tentative Typology 75 "Cultural Diversity" or Cultural Crisis? 77 The Second Lang Plan (1989-1993) 79<...
Table des matières
List of Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xviii
Editorial Practice xx
Introduction: Contemporary French Cinema - Continuity and Change in a Global Context 1
Alistair Fox, with Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, and Hilary Radner
Contexts: Institutional, Political, Cultural, and Economic 4
Characteristics of Contemporary French Cinema 4
Thematic Preoccupations 7
Trends, Developments, and the Future of French Cinema 10
Part I Economic, Institutional, and Political Contexts 15
1 The Political Economy of French Cinema: Attendance and Movie Theaters 17
Laurent Creton
Changing Patterns of Cinema Attendance 20
Cinematic Production and Its Outcomes 23
The Competitiveness of French Cinema and Market Share 25
Concentration and Diversity 30
The Transformation of the Pool of Theaters 32
The Future of Cinematic Theaters 35
2 "Do We Have the Right to Exist?" French Cinema, Culture, and World Trade 45
Jonathan Buchsbaum
France 49
Europe: Television Without Frontiers 51
Cultural Exception: GATT 56
Cultural Diversity: MAI/UNESCO 62
3 Historicizing Contemporary French Blockbusters 74
Charlie Michael
A Tentative Typology 75
"Cultural Diversity" or Cultural Crisis? 77
The Second Lang Plan (1989-1993) 79
The Maturation of a "Forced Marriage" 82
StudioCanal in the Crosshairs 84
A New Oligopoly? 87
4 Moving Between Screens: Television and Cinema in France, 1990-2010 96
Guillaume Soulez
The Role of Television in the Financing of Cinema 97
Arte as a Stimulus and Sponsor of the New Cinema 98
A Cinema of Collections 98
Realism and Television 100
The Revival of Documentary 101
Films/Telefilms: A Play of Mirrors 103
"Television Films" and Cinema Formatting 104
From Comic Television to Comedy in Cinemas 106
Cinema and Televised Series 109
5 Contemporary Political Cinema 117
Martin O'Shaughnessy
Taking Stock: Working-Class Histories and the Exit from Fordism 118
Outsiders and Victims, Ethics and Politics 125
Political Effectiveness 131
New Departures? 133
6 Diasporic and Postcolonial Cinema in France from the 1990s to the Present 136
Will Higbee
Auteur-led Productions and the "Return" of the Political in Diasporic and Postcolonial Cinema Since the 1990s 139
From Margins to the Mainstream: Postcolonial Comedy and the Mainstreaming of Maghrebi-French Filmmakers in the 2000s 144
Memorializing Colonial History: From Neo-Colonial to "Counter-Heritage" Cinema 148
Return Narratives in Diasporic Cinema of the 2000s 153
Beyond Ethnicity? Reconfiguring Difference in Diasporic Cinema 154
Part II Auteurs and Auteurism 161
7 The Veterans of the New Wave, Their Heirs, and Contemporary French Cinema 163
Michel Marie
The Extraordinary Fecundity of the Veterans of the New Wave 163
The Quartet of Founding Members: Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, Godard 166
The "Left Bank" of the New Wave 173
A Problematical Legacy 177
Epilogue: The Enduring Influence of Bresson and Pialat 181
8 Was There a Young French Cinema? 184
Jacqueline Nacache
To What Does the Term "Young French Cinema" Refer? 185
The Arrival of the New Cinema 187
The Counter-Attack of Positif 190
Maturity and Defining Parameters 192
New Appraisals, New Perspectives 195
Consensus and Uncertainties 197
