French cinema in the new century / Michel Marie -- Lost in globalized space? : a certain French cinema abroad / Roger Celestin -- French women directors negotiating transnational identities / Catherine Portuges -- The spatial evacuation of politics : landscape, power, and the "monarch" in Robert Guédiguian's The last Mitterand / Ludovic Cortade -- Destroying the banlieue : reconfigurations of suburban space in French film / James F. Austin -- Signs of the times : Chris Marker's Chats perchés / Margaret C. Flinn -- "Seeing and listening from the site of trauma" : the Algerian war in contemporary French cinema / Guy Austin -- Incorporating indigenous soldiers in the space of the French nation : Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes / Panivong Norindr -- Africa/France : contesting space / Dominic Thomas.
Summary:
"On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the French Nouvelle Vague, this volume of Yale French studies aims to take the pulse of French and Francophone cinema today by exploring the national, transnational, and post-colonial spaces of twenty-first-century France."--From publisher description.
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