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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
Geneviève Sellier
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Description for Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
Paperback. Presents an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. This title argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema. Translator(s): Ross, Kristin. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 388.
Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema’s formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they “wrote” in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, ... Read more
Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema’s formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they “wrote” in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341925
SKU
V9780822341925
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About Geneviève Sellier
Geneviève Sellier is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Caen. Her books include Jean Grémillon: Le cinéma est à vous and La Drôle de guerre des sexes du cinéma français, 1930–1956 (with Noël Burch). Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of May ’68 and Its Afterlives and ... Read more
Reviews for Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
“Thanks to this unwavering translation, Geneviève Sellier’s bracing exposé has stripped the New Wave of its stylish attire to reveal an unappealing male body. Vigilant and determined, she has trolled a sea of French criticism to net her evidence.”—Dudley Andrew, Yale University “This remarkable book will change readers’ view of New Wave cinema. Geneviève Sellier approaches this key movement in ... Read more