André Téchiné - Marshall, Bill

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Résumé :
List of Figures Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Emergence 2. New Realisms 3. Families and sexualities 4. Itineraries of Frenchness 5. Collaborations Filmography Select Bibliography Index...

Biographie:
I have enjoyed my life as a Telecom Engineer, a Real Estate Broker, and now as an author. I moved from my birth country of Canada to the US in 1979 and have been a US citizen for half my life. Our family now consists of three daughters, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. In retirement, as residents of Texas, we are enjoying our senior lifestyle.Just as a tumbleweed eventually comes to rest after being driven by the wind, my life is now full of memories of what I have done and accomplished and what I have learned from my failures.I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did while writing it....

Sommaire:
This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994. This study locates Andr? T?chin? within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war, May 1968 and contemporary globalisation, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner and the cinematic French wave. The originality of T?chin?'s sixteen feature films lies in his subtle exploration of sexuality and national identity, as he challenges expectations in his depictions of gay relations, the North African dimensions of contemporary French culture, and the centre-periphery relationship between Paris and his native southwest. The book will be of interest to researchers and postgraduates working on French cinema, undergraduates studying T?chin? on their film courses, and all those with a general interest in cinema, contemporary France, and lesbian and gay issues....