French Film in Britain

Sex, Art and Cinephilia
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-012-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reaches Britain, becoming something quite different to that experienced by audiences at home. Drawing on extensive archival research the authors examine in detail the discourses, debates and decisions which have determined the place accorded to French cinema in British film culture. In so doing they provide a fascinating account of this particular instance of transnational cinematic traffic while simultaneously shedding new light on British film history. From the early days of the Film Society, via the advent of the X certificate to the new possibilities of video and DVD, this book reveals the complex and detailed history of the distribution, exhibition, marketing and reception of French cinema in Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazdon, Lucy

Wheatley, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Advent of Sound, A Changing Film Culture (1925-39)

Chapter 2. Cinema Goes to War (1939-1950)

Chapter 3. ‘Saucy and Naughty and Witty and Chic’: Can French Films Fill the Gap? (1950-1959)

Chapter 4. The French New Wave on British Shores (1959-1970)

Chapter 5. ‘A New Low in French Films’: Changing Perceptions of French Cinema (1970-1982)

Chapter 6. Video Saved the French Film? (1982-2002)

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wheatley, Catherine
Catherine Wheatley is Lecturer in Film Studies at Kings College London. She is the author of Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Berghahn Books, 2009) and a BFI guide to Haneke’s Hidden, and editor (with Lucy Mazdon) of Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010). She regularly contributes to Sight and Sound.

Mazdon, Lucy
Lucy Mazdon is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education at the University of Hull. Her publications include Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema (BFI, 2000), France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema (Wallflower, 2001), (with Mike Hammond) The Contemporary Television Series, (EUP, 2005) and (with Catherine Wheatley) Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010).

Lucy Mazdon is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education at the University of Hull. Her publications include Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema (BFI, 2000), France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema (Wallflower, 2001), (with Mike Hammond) The Contemporary Television Series, (EUP, 2005) and (with Catherine Wheatley) Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010).