The programme with abstracts for the SFC conference 2006 is now available at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/conference.htm.



Transvergence and Francophone cinema

Wednesday 19 April 2006

Institut Français (Petite Salle), 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2DT. Tel: 020 7073 1350



If you would like to attend and receive pre-circulated papers, please send a cheque to Susan Hayward, Studies in French Cinema, Department of Film Studies, Queen's Building, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH. Fees are £10 for SFC members, £15 for non-members, and £5 for student or unwaged. 

   

The conference will include a book-signing of THE CINEMA OF FRANCE (Edited by Phil Powrie; preface Michel Marie)



An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and Poetic Realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).



'The Cinema of France is a crucial addition to the 24 Frames series in its focus on one of the most historically important and consistently influential of world cinemas. What a pleasure to encounter a collection of essays of such uniformly high quality and with equal appeal to scholars and students alike; indeed, this volume of sophisticated, well-researched, engaging, and yet accessible essays is likely to become required reading in film courses. Combining close analysis of a significant number of individual texts with careful consideration of their various historical, socio-cultural, and aesthetic contexts, this work admirably illustrates the continued importance of talking about cinema in specifically national terms.' 

Carolyn A. Durham, The College of Wooster



'Phil Powrie has brought together a wide range of internationally distinguished scholars in this attractively-presented volume, providing lucid and accessible introductions to major French films spanning almost seventy years. Wallflower Press are to be congratulated on their enterprising series, which bids fair to become the first port of call for students - undergraduate and postgraduate - of the key European national cinemas.' 

Keith Reader, Glasgow University





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