Parisian Fields
About this book
Perhaps no world city has so many resonances, on so many levels, as Paris. Cafe society, demi-monde, the intellectual life, film-makers and writers... Paris has fragmented socially, sexually, intellectually and linguistically into many fields. Parisian Fields sets out to investigate some of these. The writers investigate how Paris has been both seen and shaped by tourist guides; how its topography has been represented and allegorized by film-makers like Godard, Clair, Vigo and Renoir; how the city has responded to "new" Parisians – for example Afro-American musicians and dancers such as Josephine Baker – and to previously marginalized Parisians – gays and women. Literary analysis, film, social and gender theory, perspectives on urbanism; here are many provocative and innovative views of the open field of Paris, which will appeal to anyone interested in French cultural and literary studies – or just in the City of Light herself. With essays by Roger Clark, Nicholas Hewitt, Jon Kear, Tom Conley, Michael Sheringham, Alex Hughes, Adrian Rifkin, Belinda Jack, Verena Andermatt Conley and Marc Augé.
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Table of contents
- Parisian Fields eCover
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Photographic Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Editor and Contributors
- Introduction
- 1: Threading the Maze: Nineteenth-century Guides for BritishTravellers to Paris
- 2: Shifting Cultural Centres in Twentieth-century Paris
- 3: Vénus noire: Josephine Baker and the Parisian Music-hall
- 4: 'Le Cinéaste de la vie moderne': Paris as Map in Film, I924-34
- 5: City Space, Mental Space, Poetic Space: Paris in Breton, Benjamin and Reda
- 6: The City and the Female Autograph
- 7: The Poetics of Space Rewritten: From Renaud Camus to the Gay City Guide
- 8: 'Mirages de Paris': Paris in Francophone Writing
- 9: Electronic Paris: From Place of Election to Place of Ejection
- 10: Paris and the Ethnography of the Contemporary World
- References
- Bibliography
- Index