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Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus
A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship. As this collection of essays reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between British critical esteem for the films of France and French dismissal of ‘le cinéma British’, or the success of Ken Loach et al. at the French box office and the relative dearth of French movies on British screens. In fact, there has long been a rich and productive dialogue between these two cultures in which both their clear differences and their shared concerns have played a vital role. This book provides an overview of the history of these relations from the early days of sound cinema to the ...
Contemporary Fiction in French
Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.
The French Paradox
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Franco-Irish Connections
This collection of essays, memoirs and poems celebrates Pierre Joannon, one of the main mediators of knowledge of Irish matters in France and co-founder of Ã?Â?Ã?Â?tudes Irlandaises, the most respected scholarly journal of Irish studies in France. The book contains personal tributes from Michel DÃ?Â?Ã?Â(c)on, David Norris, Anne Madden, Louis Le Brocquy, Seamus Smith, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly and FrÃ?Â?Ã?Â(c)dÃ?Â?Ã?Â(c)ric Grasset, among others. The essays are written by a number of well known Irish and French academics and dignitaries, including John Bruton, John Hume, Joe Lee, Lara Marlowe, Louis Cullen, Thomas Bartlett and Garret FitzGerald. The book also contains an Hommage Ã?Â?Ã? Pierre Joannon by Michel DÃ?Â?Ã?Â(c)on of l'AcadÃ?Â?Ã?Â(c)mie FranÃ?Â?Ã?§aise.
Franco-America in the Making
Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, their cultural legacy has remained nearly invisible. Events like Franco-American Day, however, attest to French ethnic permanence on the American topography. In Franco-America in the Making, Jonathan K. Gosnell examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North Am...
Screening Youth
Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of 'youth' has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions - political, social, religious, economic or cultural - that agitate a society at a given time in its history.
Cixous after / depuis 2000
The essays in Cixous after/depuis 2000, edited by Hall, Chevillot, Hoft-March, and Peñalver Vicea, center on the events from 2000 to 2015 that mark Hélène Cixous’s life and writing: the donation of her archives to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, her return to Algeria, the death of her friend Jacques Derrida, the 40th anniversary of her essay “Le Rire de la Méduse,” and finally, of greatest import in her work of the 21st-century, the last years and death of her mother Eve. The essays explore an important movement in Hélène Cixous’s oeuvre as it shifts its focus not away from questions of the body, language, difference, and sexuality, but to include a broader engagement wi...
A Divided Republic
A bold interpretation of contemporary French political culture that uses current political debates to understand how the French engage with politics.
Modern France
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
