Screening the Paris Suburbs (eBook)

Philippe Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Derek Schilling is Professor of French at Johns Hopkins University

Introduction – Philippe Met and Derek Schilling
1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930–80 – Annie Fourcaut
2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896–1920 – Roland-François Lack
3 Roads, rivers and canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo – Jean-Louis Pautrot
4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s – Keith Reader
5 Julien Duvivier and interwar ‘banlieutopia’ – Margaret C. Flinn
6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens – Eric Bullot
7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue – Tristan Jean
8 Tati, suburbia and modernity – Malcolm Turvey
9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat’s L’Amour existe – Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck
10 Godard’s suburban years – Térésa Faucon
11 The banlieue wore black: postwar French polar, from Becker to Corneau – Philippe Met
12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950–80 – Camille Canteux
13 Elusive happiness: screening France’s new towns after 1968 - Derek Schilling
14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau – David Vasse
15 What’s left of the ‘red suburb’? Hervé Le Roux’s Reprise as case study – Guillaume Soulez
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