Miraculous Realism

The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord

AvNiels Niessen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

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Beskrivning

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Golden Palm, and L'humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize; both won acting awards as well. Taking this "miracle" of Cannes as the point of departure, Niels Niessen identifies a transregional film movement in the French-Belgian border region-the Cinéma du Nord or "cinema of the North." He examines this movement within the contexts of French and Belgian national cinemas from the silent era to the digital age, as well as that of the new realist tendency in world cinema of the last three decades. In addition, he traces, from a northern perspective, a secular-religious tradition in Francophone-European film and philosophy from Bresson and Pialat, via Bazin, Deleuze, and Godard, to the Dardennes and Dumont, while critiquing this tradition for its frequent use of a humanist vocabulary of grace for a secular world. Once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the Franco-Belgian Nord faced economic crisis for most of the twentieth century. Miraculous Realism demonstrates that the Cinéma du Nord's rise to prominence resulted from the region's endeavor to reinvent itself economically and culturally at the crossroads of Europe after decades of recession.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:576 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor:338
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438477336

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Niels Niessen is a Researcher in Arts and Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Recensioner i media

"…the broad approach of Miraculous Realism signals Niessen's laudable, and largely successful effort to examine this titular phenomenon at the broadest level; while the Cinéma du Nord may in itself be a very well-delineated particular phenomenon, it can of course not be considered outside of these broader, decades-long discussions about cinema and realism, which as Niessen convincingly shows, often collapse into a kind of nostalgia for Christian immanence and redemption." — Studies in European Cinema"This book not only makes a major contribution to the field but also creates a new area in this field: the opening up of discussion of the Cinéma du Nord in geopolitical, historical, and theoretical terms, through a blend of fine close reading and broader commentary." — Sarah Cooper, author of The Soul of Film Theory

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsA North Wind, or The Miracle of Cannes 1999Introduction: A Critical Fairy Tale1 Hunting for Easter Eggs in Rosetta and L'humanitéA Normal Life | humanity with a small h | The Acting/Acted Body | Of Little Flies and Burned-Out Priests |a north wind | Game Over, or The Moral of the Story2 Coal-Fired Dreams, the Cinéma du NordThe Nord | From Pays Noir to Euroregion | BetweenUtopia and Dystopia: Wallonia in the Cinema | Not Paris:Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Cinema | Conclusion | OfGiants, Angels, and Humans3 Cinéma du Nord, a Euregional CinemaTransnational Coproduction | Argument | Terre d'Images:Northern French Cinema within French National Cinema |Yes We Cannes: Francophone-Belgian Cinema in Its WalloonManifestation | At the Crossroads of Europe | Google,Van Gogh, the Louvre-Lens, and a Terril of CoatsExcursion: From the Nord, with Love4 New Realism after the Modern CinemaWhat Is Realism? | Neorealism | From Neo to New:Miraculous Realism | The Modern Cinema | The Acting/Acted Image| The Question of Grace in FrancophoneEuropean Film PhilosophyEpilogue: PosthumanismAcknowledgmentsNotesFilms ReferencedBibliographyIndex