Francophone Film: A Struggle for Identity
By (Author) Lieve Spaas
Index by Sue Lightfoot
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st February 2001
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
791.430944
Paperback
304
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 16mm
435g
This work introduces the reader to the rich film production of the French-speaking countries outside France, commonly called Francophonia, comprised of Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, the Caribbean, the Maghreb and many sub-Saharan countries. The book brings together films that might otherwise be divided by questions of race, gender, genre, period or nation, and therefore opens valuable insights for further comparative study of an unusually diverse corpus of films. Individual countries, film-makers and films are treated separately in order to emphasize their specific identities or those which are represented in their films.
Lieve Spaas is Professor of French Cultural Studies at Kingston University