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English
BFI Publishing
30 November 2017
This essay collection offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, television, history, architecture and literature, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau introduce, challenge and extend ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity. Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, this unique text demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory. This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, French Studies, European or Transnational Studies, Visual Studies, and Urban Studies. Fresh and engaging, this fascinating text will also appeal to lovers of French cinema and the capital city that comprises its major home.

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Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm, 
Weight:   620g
ISBN:   9781844578184
ISBN 10:   1844578186
Pages:   286
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alastair Phillips is Associate Professor (Reader) in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His books on French cinema include City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 (2004), Rififi (2009), Journeys of Desire, European Actors in Hollywood (co-edited with Ginette Vincendeau, 2006) and A Companion to Jean Renoir (co-edited with Ginette Vincendeau, 2013). He is an editor of Screen and currently working on a book about the films of Jacques Becker. Ginette Vincendeau is Professor in Film Studies at King’s College London and a regular contributor to Sight and Sound. She has published widely on French cinema and was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to French Culture. Among her books are Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville, An American in Paris (2003), La Haine (2005) and Brigitte Bardot (2013). She co-edited Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) and A Companion to Jean Renoir (2013) with Alastair Phillips and The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009) with Peter Graham. Her current research is on the filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara.

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