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Studies in French Cinema News

1. Issues in Popular Contemporary French Cinema (final call)

2. Cinematic Rome Conference (programme)

3. New Book by Laurent Marie

4. Cahier du cinema translations


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1. Issues in Popular Contemporary French Cinema (final call)

Two-Day Conference Jointly Organised by Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester

At Manchester Metropolitan University on 12th and 13th January 2006

French cinema has witnessed a change in its fortunes in recent years, with a number of super-productions surpassing Hollywood blockbusters in terms of domestic box-office receipts. Films including the Taxi trilogy, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Astérix et Obélix mission Cléopatre and Les Choristes have sold in excess of 7 million tickets. Some of these productions question binaries which oppose ‘popular’ and auteur film and blur the conventional boundaries that have distinguished perceptions of French and American cinemas. Consequently, they raise important questions about notions of a national and ‘popular’ French cinema which this conference aims to address and explore.

We would welcome papers on ‘popular’ French films released over the past eight years and which explore one or more of the following areas:
 
• Understandings of French ‘mainstream’ cinema
• The evolution of genres and their relation to French and US visual and performance cultures
• The influence of television on film productions
• The use of new technologies and special effects
• Production contexts including the financing of films
• Directors and the opposition between ‘popular’ and auteur cinema
• Exhibition issues and the influence of multiplexes on the types of films produced and shown
• Questions of representation, including gender, sexuality, ‘race’, ethnicity, class and national identity
• The relationship between tradition and modernity
• Stars
• Reception, including reviews, quantitative indicators such as box-office receipts and audience responses
• The exportability of the French super-productions

The conference will include three keynote speakers: Professor Ginette Vincendeau (University of Warwick), Dr Guy Austin (University of Sheffield) and Raphaëlle Moine (Université de Paris X-Nanterre). The conference will also feature a round table discussion involving professionals working in the French film industry (Bruno Delbonnel ASC to be confirmed).

Proposals of twenty minutes papers, to be delivered in either English or French, should be submitted in the form of a 300 word abstract by 20th September 2005. We intend to publish selected papers.

Please address any correspondence on organisation and general enquiries to Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden ([log in to unmask]) or Dr Darren Waldron ([log in to unmask]).


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2. Cinematic Rome Conference (programme)

CINEMATIC ROME 17-18 September 2005
Nottingham Institute of Research in Visual Culture
Department of Art History, University of Nottingham
Conference organiser: Richard Wrigley ([log in to unmask])
For registration, see www.nottingham.ac.uk/art-history, or contact Elizabeth Jennings, Department of Art History ([log in to unmask] )

PROGRAMME
Saturday 17th September
10.30 Registration
11. 10 Introduction (Richard Wrigley)
11.30 ANNE MOREY (Texas A&M University) `Home or Away? Rome in the Pre- and Postwar American Religious Blockbuster'
12.00 MARIA WYKE (University College London)*
`Caesar's Rome in Silent Cinema’
1.30 lunch
2.30 OLIVIER MAILLART (Université de Paris X-Nanterre) `A Comforting Epic: the Fascist Adventure Film’
3.00 MICHAEL SIEGEL (Brown University)
`Neorealism and the Fascist Construction of Space’
4.00 tea
4.30 MARK SHIEL (King’s College, London)
`Imagined and Built Spaces in the Rome of Neorealism’
5.00 ROBERT R. SHANDLEY (Texas A&M University)
`Roman Holiday: Industrial Salvation in the Eternal City’
5.30 discussion
6.00 drinks followed by conference dinner

SUNDAY 18th
10.00 LESLEY CALDWELL (University College London)
`Inside and Outside the City Walls: Cinematic Explorations of Inner Rome in the Work of Ferlan Ozpetek’
10.30 BERTRAND FICAMOS (Université de Bordeaux III / Universidade de Saõ Paolo) `Glauber Rocha’s Claro, or the Tragic Legibility of Chaos’
11.00 discussion
11.30 coffee
12.00 JEAN MOTTET (Université de Paris I-Sorbonne)
`Against the Monument: Pasolini in the borgate’
12.30 JACOPO BENCI (British School at Rome)*
`Michelangelo's Rome: Towards an Iconology of L'Eclisse’
1.30 lunch
2.30 STEFANO BASCHIERA (National University of Ireland, Cork) Bertolucci’s `The Grim Reaper: Rome as a New Wave City?’
 3.00 JOANNA PAUL (University of Bristol)
'Rome Ruined and Fragmented: The Cinematic City in Fellini-Satyricon and Roma'
4.00 tea
4.30 MICHAEL BAUMGARTNER (University of Salzburg)
'Greenaway's Belly: The Gaze of the Filmmaker on Rome'
5.00 MARK GOODALL (University of Bradford)
`Mondo Roma: Images of Italy in the Shockumentary Tradition’
5.30 closing discussion


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3. Le cinéma est à nous
Le PCF et le cinéma français de la Libération à nos jours


de Laurent MARIE





Dès la Libération, le Parti communiste français a décrété, après Lénine, que de tous les arts, le plus important, c’est l’art cinématographique. Des campagnes contre les accords Blum-Byrnes à la défense de l’exception culturelle, les communistes se sont en effet érigés en champions de l’industrie cinématographique. Parallèlement, la critique communiste a évalué la production nationale au gré de ses modes et de ses mouvements, du « cinéma de qualité » au « cinéma d’auteur » en passant par la Nouvelle Vague et la caméra idéologique de Mai 68. Cette première étude détaillée des relations entre le PCF et le cinéma français de 1944 à nos jours analyse l’évolution et les soubresauts des politiques cinématographiques et des discours critiques du PCF à travers une lecture détaillée de sa presse et de ses archives. Le cinéma est à nous offre ainsi une mise en perspective historique inédite des positions des communistes sur le cinéma français.


Laurent MARIE est Maître de conférences à la School of Languages, Literatures and Film de UCD (University College Dublin). Sa thèse de doctorat porte sur la relation entre le PCF et le cinéma français de 1944 à 1999.




 
Collection CHAMPS VISUELS
ISBN : 2-7475-8908-0 • Prix : 31 € • 370 pages


 

TABLE DES MATIÈRES


INTRODUCTION

CHAPITRE I – ESPOIR ET DÉSENCHANTEMENT (1944-1947)

CHAPITRE II – LE CINÉMA EST AFFAIRE MORALE

CHAPITRE III – LES ANNÉES DOGME (1947-1956)

CHAPITRE IV – SAINS, VRAIS, ET PLEINS DE BONS SENTIMENTS

CHAPITRE V – LA NOUVELLE RÉPUBLIQUE (1957-1964)

CHAPITRE VI – LE CHÊNE ET LE ROSEAU

CHAPITRE VII – UTOPIES ET REALITÉS DU CINÉMA (1965-80)

CHAPITRE VIII – LE PRINTEMPS DE LA CRITIQUE

CHAPITRE IX – EXCEPTION CULTURELLE (1981-2005)

CHAPITRE X – ROSETTA CONTRE NIKITA

CONCLUSION – LE CINÉMA EST À NOUS





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4. Cahiers du cinema translations

In June Cahiers inaugurated its web site and translations (English, Japanese, and Spanish) are available each month of two texts, chosen by Cahiers' editor, Jean-Michel Frodon. See: www.Cahiersducinema.com


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