French and Francophone Studies — French Film Resources

En 2017, les femmes d’Hollywood ont dénoncé, haut et fort, le sexisme de leur industrie. Depuis, l’histoire du féminisme est jalonnée de prises de parole par des femmes du cinéma qui constituent de grands tournants. Les personnes dont vous trouverez les mots dans ce livre ont toutes, depuis cinq ans, fait bouger les lignes, pas seulement dans leur milieu, mais aussi dans la société tout entière.

Entretiens avec les acteur.rice.s, réalisateur.rice.s, scénaristes, productrices :
Aïssa Maïga, Alice Diop, Amandine Gay, Céline Sallette, Déborah Lukumuena, Fanny Herrero, Helena Noguerra, Houda Benyamina, Inès Rau, Iris Brey, Julie Gayet, Katell Quillévéré, Laurence Lascary, Océan, Ovidie, Rebecca Zlotowski, Sonia Rolland

In Past Forward: French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage, author Dayna Oscherwitz focuses on the world of French films with a new lens. Drawing upon a wealth of research and the examination of popular French movies, Oscherwitz offers fresh perspectives not only on the unique importance of motion pictures and their indelible influence on French character, but on current debates regarding individual and collective memory.

The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. A History of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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.

André Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinéma, which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications. Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who contributed a short foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he became the protégé of François Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his forword to Volume II. This new edition includes graceful forewords to each volume by Bazin scholar and biographer Dudley Andrew, who reconsiders Bazin and his place in contemporary film study. The essays themselves are erudite but always accessible, intellectual, and stimulating. As Renoir puts it, the essays of Bazin "will survive even if the cinema does not."

This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society.