Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Ross, Kristin
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Ross, Kristin

Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema

Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist...
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Author: Kristin Ross
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Ross, Kristin

Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema

$86.32
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Ross, Kristin

Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema

$86.32
Author: Kristin Ross
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Genevi ve Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema's formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they "wrote" in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, they explored relations between men and women, and they expressed ambivalence about the new liberated woman. Sellier argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema.

Sellier draws on sociological surveys, box office data, and popular magazines of the period, as well as analyses of specific New Wave films. She examines the development of the New Wave movement, its sociocultural and economic context, and the popular and critical reception of such well-known films as Jules et Jim and Hiroshima mon amour. In light of the filmmakers' focus on gender relations, Sellier reflects on the careers of New Wave's iconic female stars, including Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot. Sellier's thorough exploration of early New Wave cinema culminates in her contention that its principal legacy-the triumph of a certain kind of cinephilic discourse and of an "auteur theory" recognizing the director as artist-came at a steep price: creativity was reduced to a formalist game, and affirmation of New Wave cinema's modernity was accompanied by an association of creativity with masculinity.



Author: Kristin Ross
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 03/25/2008
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.36w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780822341925

About the Author

Geneviève Sellier is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Caen. Her books include Jean Grémillon: Le cinéma est à vous and La Drôle de guerre des sexes du cinéma français, 1930-1956 (with Noël Burch). Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of May '68 and Its Afterlives and Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture.


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