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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: King, Gemma. Decentring France. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 (OCoLC)964551117 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gemma King |
ISBN: | 9781526113597 1526113597 9781526113603 1526113600 |
OCLC Number: | 1006379096 |
Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction -- A brief history of multilingualism in French cinema -- Decentred perspectives : case studies -- Capital centres : Polisse and Entre les murs -- Urban margins : Un phophète and Dheepan -- Coastal borders : Welcome and La Graine et le mulet -- International spaces : London River and Des hommes et des dieux -- Conclusion. |
Other Titles: | Decentering France |
Responsibility: | Gemma King. |
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'Starting off with a brief overview of French cinema from the silent period to the present, King then focuses on eight films that are both multicultural and multilingual, and examines how the use of Kurdish, Tamil, Arabic and other languages within these films empowers the cultures they represent as well as the languages themselves. King argues that by refusing to "center" the French language in contemporary French cinema, these films - among them Jacques Audiard's Dheepan (2015) and Un prophete (2009), Laurent Cantet's Entre les murs (2008), Philippe Lioret's Welcome (2009) - force cinemagoers into a deeper engagement with issues of class, race, nationality, and cultural privilege.' G. A. Foster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, CHOICE, October 2018, Vol. 56, No. 2 -- . Read more...


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- Motion pictures -- France.
- Motion pictures and language -- France.
- Language and languages in motion pictures.
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures and language.
- France.
- Film
- Mehrsprachigkeit
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Frankreich