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4. Studies in French Cinema 17:3
The third issue of
Studies in French Cinema for 2017 contains the following articles:
Nicholas Ealy, 'Tu es déjà rentré?': trauma, narcissism and melancholy in François Ozon's Sous le sable (2000).
Katrin Pesch, Ecologies of Debt in Claire Denis's L'Intrus/The Intruder (2004)
T. Jefferson Kline, Situating La Princesse de Montpensier: Tavernier’s adaptation of Madame de Lafayette
Tom Cuthbertson, In/Out: fictionalising autobiography in Vincent Dieutre's Jaurès (2012)
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5. Recent pre-published articles
Kierran Horner, Agnès Varda's Le Bonheur: Pop Art, advertising and patriarchy
Anita Leandro, Missing links: les traces de l’histoire dans le cinéma de Chantal Akerman
Isabelle McNeill, ‘Shine Bright Like a Diamond’: music, performance and digitextuality in Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles (2014)
Barry Nevin, Coming soon: Arizona Jim vs. Cagoulard!': framing the future of the Front Populaire in Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935)
Erika Thomas, Conversation avec Claire Simon: autour de Gare du Nord (2013) et Géographie humaine (2013)
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6. Special Interest Group (BAFTSS Conference Bristol)
The first meeting of the French and Francophone Special Interest Group affiliated to the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies, took place at the BAFTSS annual conference, University of Bristol, 20 April 2017. The panel was convened by Phil
Powrie, and the following papers were given:
Mary Harrod, The Emotional Politics of Genre
Phil Powrie, Z music: the 1970s French political thriller
Ginette Vincendeau, Challenging the banlieue film: from stereotypes to invisibility
If you have not yet joined the FFSIG, please consider doing so; you need to join BAFTSS and I can then add you to the list you will find here:
http://baftss.org/special-interest-groups/french-francophone-cinema/
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8. New books
Bonnefille, Éric. 2017. Maurice Tourneur: une vie au long cours. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Chakali, Saad. 2017. Jean-Luc Godard dans la relève des archives du mal. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Lamoureux, Maxence. 2017. Les Cinéastes animaliers: enquête dans les coulisses du film animalier en France. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Moreews, Alain. 2017. Pierre Herbart: cinématographes et colonies (1903–1974). Paris: L’Harmattan.
Hodgin, Nick, and Amit Thakkar, eds. 2017. Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Le Forestier, Laurent. 2017. La Transformation Bazin. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.
Morari, Codruţa. 2017. The Bressonians: French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Powrie, Phil. 2017. Music in Contemporary French Cinema: The Crystal-Song. London: Palgrave Macmillan.