{"title":"Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan","authors":"Antonia Wimbush","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2289965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2289965","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize","authors":"Oana Sabo","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2246917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2246917","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the mass media reception of Annie Ernaux’s 2022 Nobel Prize, particularly the criticisms in the French press. After the award announcement, Ernaux was at once celebrated for h...","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 68","authors":"Michael Seidman","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2284757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2284757","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–2017","authors":"Joanne Pettitt","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2277295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2277295","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le Piège africain de Macron","authors":"Tony Chafer","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2284762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2284762","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert","authors":"Pascal Convert, Nigel Saint","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2265853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2265853","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence <b>Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence</b> , by Mani Sharpe, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, 2023, 266 pp., £90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4744-1422-7","authors":"Lia Brozgal","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2277296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2277296","url":null,"abstract":"\"Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence.\" Modern & Contemporary France, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"116 41","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135137590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going beyond the <i>guerre des mémoires</i> in theatrical representations of the Algerian War","authors":"Fiona Barclay","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2265859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2265859","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the ‘guerre des mémoires’ that has defined the memorial landscape surrounding the Algerian War and seen it mired it in a competitive memory dynamic that Benjamin Stora terms ‘une surenchère victimaire’. It argues that since the fiftieth anniversary of independence in 2012 there are signs of attempts to move beyond the impasse. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe and Anna Cento Bull, the article examines two recent plays that adopt contrasting approaches to the aim of representing conflicting experiences of the war. Et le cœur fume encore features elements of Rancerian thought, emphasising the multiplicity of conflicting experiences, and interrupting viewer empathy through distancing techniques that disengage actor from character to defer empathetic engagement until the full complexity of post-war experience is made available. In contrast, Les Pieds tanqués works to create an entente between audience and characters that emphasises not only division but also the culture and humour that unites protagonists from different backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":" 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135192957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique","authors":"Antoine Coppola","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2269396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2269396","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTLe film de Leos Carax « Annette » projeté au festival de Cannes en 2021 n’a laissé personne indifférent : quelque chose d’important se disait à propos du cinéma et, en particulier, du cinéma français. Le fil conducteur de notre analyse du film est celui de l’auto-psychanalyse de l’auteur, Carax lui-même nous invitant à le faire. Il en sort un récit personnel tragique mais aussi un sur-moi caraxien de génie maudit du cinéma très médiatique que le film tente de mêler à une critique du show-biz en général. Légère, cette critique pourtant s’éclairer à la lumière des notions de régime de véridiction de Michel Foucault et de régime scopique selon Jay Martin. Une organisation du voir-vu et du montrant-montré hante autant la société que le cinéma dits postmodernes ; celui de Carax en particulier qui tente de l’énoncer-dénoncer comme Jean-Luc Godard en jouant de la métadiégétique. Cette hantologie ou fantomachie à la manière de Derrida ne parvient pourtant pas à une critique du spectacle qui ne serait pas un spectacle de la critique comme les conditions dans lesquelles le film a été fait et diffusé le montrent.ABSTRACTLeos Carax’s film ‘Annette’, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, left no one indifferent: something important was being said about cinema and, in particular, about French cinema. The thread running through our analysis of the film is that of the author’s self-psychoanalysis, with Carax himself inviting us to do so. What emerges is a tragic personal account, but also a Caraxian ego of a cursed genius of highly mediatised cinema, which the film attempts to mix with a critique of showbiz in general. This criticism is light, but it is illuminated by the notions of Michel Foucault’s regime of veridiction and Jay Martin’s scopic regime. An organisation of seeing-seen and showing-shown haunts both so-called postmodern society and cinema; that of Carax in particular, who tries to announce-denounce it like Jean-Luc Godard by playing with meta-diegetics. This hantology or fantomachy in the manner of Derrida does not, however, achieve a critique of the spectacle that is not a spectacle of critique, as the conditions in which the film was made and broadcast show. Déclaration de divulgationAucun conflit d’intérêts potentiel n’a été rapporté par l’auteur.Notes1. A ce sujet voir le concept « d’esthétique publicitaire » de Journot (Citation2005, 5).2. Carax dit : « Est-ce que je pouvais vraiment faire un film sur un si mauvais père, à ce moment-là de ma vie ?. Mais comme j’écoutais les chansons en boucle, ma fille a fini par les aimer autant que moi et à me poser des questions … » (Carax Citation2020, 8).3. Notons ici la possibilité d’un effet métadiégétique : le film « Annette » est un projet d’opéra rock, à l’origine, proposé par les musiciens du groupe Sparks. La paternité pourrait donc en être disputée avec le réalisateur qui met en scène ce conflit latent à travers la représentation du conflit Henry-chef d’orchestre.4. Paolo Campana d","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"66 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Serres’s reading of <i>Tartuffe</i> : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination","authors":"Robert Hughes","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2262921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2262921","url":null,"abstract":"In The Parasite (1980), philosopher Michel Serres invites readers to reflect on hypocrisy in a non-moral sense. Ruminating upon the example of Molière’s Tartuffe, Serres takes up the scandalous imposture of the hypocrite and he shows, at the heart of comic pretence, what this essay describes as an underdetermination of identity and individuation. That is, where readers, theatregoers, and participants in public discourse would ground thought upon a principle of determinacy and individuation—for example determinations of the basic wickedness of hypocrites and parasites—philosophical considerations of these figures (and the phenomenon of comic action) explode this principle to suggest an ontological and discursive space of inconsistency and intermediacy. By examining Tartuffe’s ingratiating language of piety and the play’s surprising figures of grace, this essay shows how discursive systems and social systems are equally devoted to ideals of determinable identity that leave them vulnerable to operators who can discern and exploit the inevitable sites of latent incoherence and inconsistency. The essay concludes by developing Serres’s notions of comedy as a play between consistency and inconsistency, individuation and disindividuation, a sad and severed fragmentariness (as with Plato’s Aristophanes), but also the generative spawning of a supplemental comic critical consciousness.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"31 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135268375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}