French Cinema in The 1980s Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity

Name: French Cinema in The 1980s Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity
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ISBN: 9780198711193

ISBN-10: 0198711190

ISBN-13: 9780198711193

Edition: 1997

Authors: Phil Powrie

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French film in the 1980s might have lacked the invention of the New Wave but gritty police thrillers and nostalgic costume-dramas such as Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources brought French cinema to a wider audience than ever before. This landmark study is not merely a history of French film in the 1980s, but offers a set of critical essays on the crisis of masculinity in contemporary French culture, and its interrelationship with nostalgia. After a brief overview both of the crisis in the French film industry during the 1980s, and of the socio-political crisis of masculinity in the wake of 1970s feminism, the book is divided into three sections: the retro-nostalgic film, the Polar,…

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Phil Powrie is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published widely on French film, including French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity; Contemporary French Cinema: Continuity and Difference; and French Cinema: A Student's Guide.



Preface


Introduction


The Nostalgia Film


Un amour de Swann: nostalgia and sexuality


Un dimanche a la campagne: nostalgia, painting, and depressive masochism


Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources: nostalgia and hysteria


Coup de foudre: nostalgia and lesbianism


Vivement dimanche! or how to take away with one hand what you give with the other


A Fistful of Polars: chronicles of discomfiture


Diva's Deluxe Disasters


Subway: identity and inarticulacy


Mauvais sang: the flight of the female


The comic film


Trois hommes et un couffin: hysterical homoeroticism


La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille: fallen angels and men overboard


Tenue de soiree: the `suffering macho'


Conclusion


Filmography


Bibliography


Index