Paris in the Cinema ― Beyond the Fl滱eur

Paris is the most iconic and frequently painted, photographed and filmed city in the world. Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, history, architecture and literature, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau introduce, challenge and extend ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity.

Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, this vibrant collection:

• provides innovative angles on how films deploy the French capital beyond its function as glamorous background

• explores how filmmakers both construct and recycle its status as an ‘iconic capital’

• considers the specific identities of Parisians on screen

• demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory.

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Alastair Phillips is Associate Professor (Reader) in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His books on French cinema include City of Darkness, City of Light: Emigre Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 (2004), Rififi (2009), Journeys of Desire, European Actors in Hollywood (co-edited with Ginette Vincendeau, 2006) and A Companion to Jean Renoir (co-edited with Ginette Vincendeau, 2013). He is an editor of Screen and currently working on a book about the films of Jacques Becker.

Ginette Vincendeau is Professor in Film Studies at King’s College London and a regular contributor to Sight and Sound. She has published widely on French cinema and was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to French Culture. Among her books are Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville, An American in Paris (2003), La Haine (2005) and Brigitte Bardot (2013). She co-edited&n