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From Split to Screened Selves
This book is a study of recent autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. Gabara investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, as well as across the colonial encounter, from France to Francophone North and West Africa. Reading works by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, Assia Djebar, Cyril Collard, David Achkar, and Raoul Peck, she argues that autobiographical film and African autobiography, subgenres that have until now been overlooked or dismissed by critics, offer new and important possibilities for self-representation in the twenty-first century. Not only do these new forms of autobiography deserve our attention, but any study of contemporary autobiography is incomplete without them.
Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.
Frenchness and the African Diaspora
Auto da fé : understanding the 2005 Riots. Primitive rebellion in the French Banlieues : on the fall 2005 riots / Didier Lapeyronnie -- The republic and its beast : on the riots in the French Banlieues / Achille Mbembe -- Figures of multiplicity : can France reinvent Its identity? / Achille Mbembe -- Outsiders in the French melting pot : the public construction of invisibility for visible minorities / Ahmed Boubeker -- Colonization, citizenship, and containment. From imperial inclusion to republican exclusion? : France's ambiguous postwar trajectory / Frederick Cooper -- Colonial syndrome : French modern and the deceptions of history / Florence Bernault -- Transient citizens : the othering ...
Jacques Rivette
As a pioneer of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette was one of a group of directors who permanently altered the world's perception of cinema by taking the camera out of the studios and into the streets. His films, including Paris nous appartient, Out 1: Noli me tangere, Céline et Julie vont en bateau--Phantom Ladies Over Paris, La belle noiseuse, Secret défense, and Va savoir are extraordinary combinations of intellectual depth, playfulness, and sensuous beauty. In this study of Rivette, Mary M. Wiles provides a thorough account of the director's career from the burgeoning French New Wave to the present day, focusing on the theatricality of Rivette's films and his explorations of the relationship between cinema and fine arts such as painting, literature, music, and dance. Wiles also explores the intellectual interests that shaped Rivette's approach to film, including Sartre's existentialism, Barthes's structuralism, and the radical theater of the 1960s. The volume concludes with Wiles's insightful interview with Rivette.
Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims
Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb is a collection of essays that explores the question of artistic representation(s)/self-representation(s) of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France, the Maghreb and in/between since the 2000s. The volume offers a plurality of feminine and masculine voices and points of view on cultural Islam (Franco-French, Franco-Maghrebi, Maghrebi), all the while addressing the impact of events like 9/11, the tragic attacks in France in 2015-2016 (Charlie Hebdo, Stade de France, Bataclan, Nice), and the Arab Spring. Taken together, the volume features a transnational and transversal set of artistic vo...
Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman n’est pas seulement un grand nom de la chanson. Il est aussi un enfant d’immigrés juifs devenu la personnalité préférée des Français, un artiste engagé après la mort des utopies, un artisan au coeur des industries culturelles, un homme en rupture avec les codes virils. Le succès n’a affecté ni sa droiture ni son humilité. Pour exister, Goldman a dû composer avec les règles de son temps, mais il a fini par composer lui-même l’air du temps, les chansons que les filles écoutaient dans leur chambre, les tubes sur lesquels tous les jeunes dansaient, les hymnes des générations qui se pressaient à ses concerts. Et puis, au sommet de la gloire, l’hyperstar a choisi de se retirer. Dans la folie des réseaux sociaux, son invisibilité le rend étrangement visible. À force d’absence, et parce qu’il n’a jamais été aussi présent, Goldman est devenu un mythe. Ce livre retrace le parcours d’un artiste exceptionnel, tout en racontant nos années Goldman.
French Cinema Since 1950
French Cinema Since 1950 brings together modern scholarship of the most widely viewed and studied works of the period.
L'âge de Peer
Se démarquant de ceux qui ne voient dans les possibilités d'échange libre de fichiers sur Internet qu'une menace pour les industries de la musique, du cinéma et des jeux vidéo, l'auteur montre comment ces industries ont au contraire tout intérêt à tirer profit de l'immense potentiel qu'offrent Internet et en particulier le Web 2. Il propose de nouvelles avenues et de nouveaux modèles économiques pour la rentabilisation du gratuit. [SDM].
Franco-Maghrebi Artists of the 2000s
In Franco-Maghrebi Artists of the 2000s: Transnational Narratives and Identities Ramona Mielusel offers an account of the way how young artists (writers, filmmakers, actors, singers, photographers, contemporary migrant artists) of Maghrebi origin residing in France during the last twenty years (2000-2016) contest French “national identity” in their work. Mielusel's interest lies in analyzing the impact that these “minor” artists and their chosen genres have on mainstream cultural productions. She argues that constant displacement and changes in political, social and cultural contexts have significantly transformed the dynamics that govern the relationship between the center (Metropolitan France) and the periphery (its Others). Most importantly, she seeks to position their work in the field of transnationalism, which has dominated postcolonial studies and cultural studies in the past decade.
