Descrizione
‘Chareyron and Viennot have gathered an impressive array of perceptive essays in this unique examination of films about youth in France and Francophone countries. They illuminate a diverse range of adolescent roles across historical and cultural conditions, providing an exceptional appreciation for how children are depicted across class settings, sexual identities, racial tensions, family dynamics, and adult politics.’ Professor Timothy Shary, Eastern Florida State College Explores how the topic of ‘youth’ has inspired Francophone filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors’ visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of ‘youth’ has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions – political, social, religious, economic or cultural – that agitate a society at a given time in its history. Romain Chareyron is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Saskatchewan. Gilles Viennot is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Arkansas
