Niessen Miraculous Realism

The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7735-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niessen, Niels

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
List of Illustrations

A North Wind, or The Miracle of Cannes 1999

Introduction: A Critical Fairy Tale

1 Hunting for Easter Eggs in Rosetta and L'humanité
A 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 Story

2 Coal-Fired Dreams, the Cinéma du Nord
The Nord From Pays Noir to Euroregion Between
Utopia and Dystopia: Wallonia in the Cinema Not Paris:

Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Cinema Conclusion Of
Giants, Angels, and Humans

3 Cinéma du Nord, a Euregional Cinema
Transnational Coproduction Argument Terre d'Images:

Northern French Cinema within French National Cinema
Yes We Cannes: Francophone-Belgian Cinema in Its Walloon
Manifestation At the Crossroads of Europe Google,
Van Gogh, the Louvre-Lens, and a Terril of Coats
Excursion: From the Nord, with Love

4 New Realism after the Modern Cinema
What Is Realism? Neorealism From Neo to New:

Miraculous Realism The Modern Cinema The Acting/
Acted Image The Question of Grace in Francophone
European Film Philosophy

Epilogue: Posthumanism

Acknowledgments

Notes

Films Referenced

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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