A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema by Alistair Fox; Michel Marie; Raphaëlle Moine (Editor); Hilary RadnerA Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day. Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time
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Finding Books
Finding Books
Use TRIPODto find books and other material owned by the Tri-College libraries.
In order to find books in either catalog, conduct either a relevant:
Provides detailed information on films from around the world, including production and cast information, plot summaries, background notes, awards listings, and citations to reviews and other secondary literature. Offers simultaneous searching of the American Film Institute Catalog, the British Film Institute's Film Index International, and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals. Covers 1893 - present.
Cairn
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A comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. Includes 374 journals from 40 publishers, mostly European. Can also be searched without a subscription (with some free content) for those not at Bryn Mawr College.
Selected French Film Journals
Cahiers du Cinema
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Swarthmore has print copies from 1951-64 & 1967- present.
Cinémas : revue d'études cinématographiques = journal of film studies
Popular website, good for recent non-scholarly reviews and box office figures.
Screen Studies Collection
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ProQuest Research Library
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Selected Books
Selected books
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism by Dina Sherzer (Editor)
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Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Decentring France: Multilingualism and power in contemporary French cinema by Gemma King
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Publication Date: 2017-10-04
French minority cinema by Johnston, Cristina.
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From Empire to the World: migrant London and Paris in the cinema by Malini Guha
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Publication Date: 2015-02-01
Post-Beur Cinema: North African Emigre and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France Since 2000 by Will Higbee
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Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Reframing Difference: Beur and banlieue filmmaking in France by Carrie Tarr
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Publication Date: 2005-09-03
Reimagining North African Immigration: Identities in flux in French literature, television, and film by Patrick Saveau (Editor); Veronique Machelidon (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2018-03-14
Representing Ethnicity in Contemporary French Visual Culture by Joseph McGonagle
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Publication Date: 2017-01-05
Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France