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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema

Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema

Ross, Kristin
Sellier, Geneviève

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Film StudiesFrench HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822341751
ISBN13: 9780822341758
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 25 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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, Geneviève 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.

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