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Showing the World to the World: Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s
Author(s): Florian Grandena (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 16 Sept. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847186041
- ISBN-13: 9781847186041
Book Description
The book focuses on the interest in socio-political themes that marked many French film productions of the 1990s and early 2000s. In order to underline the main characteristics and the originality of these feature films (political fictions), the author addresses the following questions: oHow can one explain the renewed interest in contemporary French society? oTo what extent can political fictions be described as political? oWhat is the contribution of political fictions to what some critics and scholars have described as a new type of realism? Showing the World to the World primarily addresses to the critical and socio-political context in which political fictions were made and released. With these parameters in mind, the book then moves on to in-depth discussions of films that have already attracted some attention, such as Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine and Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s Drôle de Félix, as well as lesser known works, Siegrid Alnoy’s Elle est des nôtres and Jean-Marc Moutout’s Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré being some examples. Showing the World to the World makes an original contribution to theoretical debates on political cinema and to the field of French film studies. The study targets students and academic researchers as well as individuals with a keen interest in contemporary French cinema.
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About the Author
Florian Grandena is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches film studies. He focuses on contemporary French gay-themed feature films, particularly the works of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, on which he is currently preparing a book. He is also the initiator of the cycle of the Hypervisibility conferences, which concentrates on the representations of homosexualities in contemporary francophone visual cultures.
