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Author:

Sellier, Geneviève.

Title:

Masculine singular : French new wave cinema / Geneviève Sellier ; translated by Kristin Ross.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vi, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures--France--History.
New wave films--France--History and criticism.

Other Titles:

Nouvelle vague : un cinéma au masculin singulier. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-251) and index. Translated from the French.

Contents:

The Aesthetic Doxa on the new wave -- A new generation marked by the emergence of women -- Cinephilia in the 1950s -- Auteur cinema: an affair of state -- Contrasting receptions -- The precursors -- Between Romanticism and Modernism -- Nostalgia for a heroic masculinity -- The women of the new wave: between modern and Archaic -- Jeanne Moreau: stat of the new wave and icon of modernity -- Brigitte Bardot and the new wave: an ambivalent relationship -- The independent filmmakers of the left bank: a "feminist" alternative? -- The new wave's legacy: "auteur cinema".

ISBN:

0822341921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822341925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341751 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341758 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007042439

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)