A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema

A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents acomprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspectsof French cinema from 1990 to the present day.
 
• Features original contributions from top film scholarsrelating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema
• Includes new research on matters relating to thepolitical economy of contemporary French cinema, developments incinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, andrenovation of theaters
• Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond thefiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur,and digital filmmaking
• Contains an unusually large range of methodologicalapproaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender,auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalyticstudies
• Includes essays by important French cinema scholarsfrom France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is herepresented in English for the first time

Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Cinema and MediaStudies at l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3.Her publications include Cinema Genre (2002; translated intoEnglish in 2008), Remakes: les films Français àHollywood (2007), and Les Femmes d’action aucinéma (2010).

Hilary Radner is Professor of Film and Media Studies inthe Department of History and Art History at the University ofOtago. Her publications include Neo-Feminist Cinema: GirlyFilms, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (2011) and Feminismat the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary PopularCulture (2011).

Alistair Fox is Professor Emeritus at the University ofOtago. His books include Jane Campion: Authorship and PersonalCinema (2011), New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past(2011), and an English edition and translation of AnneGillain’s François Truffaut: The Lost Secret(2013).

Michel Marie is Professor Emeritus atl’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3. Hispublications include The French New Wave: An Artistic School(1998, translated into English in 2002), Aesthetics of Film(with Jacques Aumont and Alain Bergala, 1983, translated intoEnglish in 2002), and Les Grands Pervers au cinéma(2009).