Screening the Paris Suburbs - From the Silent Era to the 1990sPevná vazba
Screening the Paris Suburbs - From the Silent Era to the 1990sPevná vazba The record of French cinema's many forays into the Paris suburbs is far more than a prehistory of the 'film de banlieue'.…
Specifikacia Screening the Paris Suburbs - From the Silent Era to the 1990sPevná vazba
Screening the Paris Suburbs - From the Silent Era to the 1990sPevná vazba
The record of French cinema's many forays into the Paris suburbs is far more than a prehistory of the 'film de banlieue'. Idyllic or menacing, wide-open or claustrophobic, these locales served divergent ideological and aesthetic programmes. Decades before the emergence - around 1995 - of a self-styled 'hood' film in France, filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the City of Light for inspiration and content.In the jumble of spaces surrounding Paris they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions.
From the bourgeois villas and vacant lots of Louis Feuillade's serials of the 1910s and the bucolic watering holes of 1930s poetic realism to the vast post-war housing estates showcased by Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati and Maurice Pialat, the gritty noir d cors of Jean-Pierre Melville or the sleek, post-modern new