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| Title: |
Post-1995 French cinema: return of the social, return of the political? |
| Author: |
O'Shaughnessy, Martin |
| Appeared in: |
Modern & contemporary France |
| Paging: | Volume 11 (2003) nr. 2 pages 189-203 |
| Year: |
2003-05 |
| Contents: |
A key trend in post-1995 French cinema has been the return of the social. Analysing this trend, this article seeks to evaluate its politic impact. Using Herve Le Roux's Reprise (1997) and Agne `s Varda's Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000) as key meta-texts, it suggests that the current wave of politically engaged cinema needs to be approached in new ways that recognise how films trace the impact of a politically unmediated, 'raw' real on groups or individuals. It further suggests that the withdrawal of political mediation gives the films an essential ambiguity and a melodramatic quality that, rather than mere cliche, may be a privileged way to engage with the violence of the real. Film is now not so much in the van but dans le bain of a diverse socio-political stirring. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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