Thousand Screenplays The French Imagination in a Time of Crisis

Name: Thousand Screenplays The French Imagination in a Time of Crisis
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ISBN: 9780226100685

ISBN-10: 0226100685

ISBN-13: 9780226100685

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sabine Chalvon-Demersay, Teresa Lavender Fagan

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In 1991, French public television held an amateur screenwriting contest. When Sabine Chalvon-Demersay, a French sociologist, examined the roughly 1,000 entries, she had hoped to analyze their differences. What she found, however, surprised her. Although the entrants covered nearly every social demographic, their screenplays presented similar characters in similar situations confronting similar problems.The time of crisis presented by the amateur writers was not one of war, famine, or disease—it was the millennial dilemma of representation. In a world plagued by alienation, individualization, and a lack of mobility, how can members of a society combat their declining senses of self?Although…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 0.61" wide x 1.09" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Overview of the Synopses


Historical Contexts


The Geographical Framework


The Sociological Framework


Plots A Spiraling Crisis



Social Bonds


The Powerlessness of Institutions


The Hunger of Developers


The Betrayal of Experts


The Failure of Integrating Values


The Yearning for Interpersonal Values


The Promotion of Aesthetic Values


The Media



Intimacies


The Decomposed Family


The Blending of Generations Men and Women


The Rhetoric of Feelings


Transitory Networks Improbable Friendships



Solitudes Wandering


The Fragmented Subject


Conclusion Results


The Spiral of Powerlessness


The Spiral of Pessimism



Scenario of a Research Project



The Authors



Plot Summaries of the Twelve Selected Projects


Titles and Authors of the Synopses


Cited Bibliography


Index