| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Manchester Film Studies |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80; 2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920; 3 Roads, rivers, canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo; 4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s; 5 Julien Duvivier and inter-war 'banlieutopia'; 6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens; 7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue; 8 Tati, suburbia and modernity |
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9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe10 Godard's suburban years; 11 The banlieue wore black: post-war French polar, from Becker to Corneau; 12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80; 13 Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968; 14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau; 15 What's left of the 'red suburb'? Hervé Le Roux's Reprise as case study; Index; Plates |
| 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' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2018) |
| Subject |
Suburbs in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- France.
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Suburbs -- France
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Suburbs
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Suburbs in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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France
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France -- Paris
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Met, Philippe, editor
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Schilling, Derek (Derek G.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526135995 |
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152613599X |
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9781526107794 |
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1526107791 |
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9781526107800 |
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1526107805 |
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