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Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity beyond French Cinema by Jenny Chamarette

Victoria Grace Walden
June 2013
Book Reviews
Phenomenological notions of slippery subjectivity and the ‘chiasmic in-betweenness’ of the film experience are beautifully illustrated in Chamarette’s book which engages with one of the richest examples of thic...

The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn From Contemporary French Actresses by Mick LaSalle

Kath Dooley
March 2013
Book Reviews
In 2008 French actress Catherine Deneuve (then aged sixty-four) made her 100th screen appearance in Arnaud Desplechin’s Un Conte de Noel/A Christmas Tale. In the time that has followed she has made at least two...

Maurice Pialat: Acts of Grace

Max Nelson
March 2012
The Second Generation: French Cinema After the New Wave
First we see only ugliness. A troubled young boy hurls a cat down a flight of stairs. A mother cradles her daughter’s corpse and presses her gaping mouth against the pale and bloodied face. The labored breaths ...

Welcome: An Insight into the Landscape of Contemporary French Consciousness

Imed Labidi
June 2011
Feature Articles
Set amongst the world of refugees and asylum seekers in the port city of Calais, Philippe Lioret’s 2009 film says much about France’s confrontation with the symbolic ‘other’.

The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film Since 1995 by Martin O’Shaughnessy

Alex Ling
December 2009
Book Reviews
The relationship of cinema to politics has a rich and chequered history, effectively dictating the form of many of cinema’s most vibrant configurations (Russian cinema in the wake of the 1917 revolution, Italia...
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Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet

Saige Walton
April 2009
Book Reviews
Those familiar with French director Claire Denis will be aware of the exquisite sensuality of her cinema. Whether coming together with another body in the world through the shared space and flesh of desire, or ...

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