May 68 in French Fiction and Film
Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 November 1999
- ISBN 9780198715153
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages196 pages
- Size 217x138x15 mm
- Weight 286 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
May 1968 and its aftermath constitute a watershed in contemporary French history. France was brought to a standstill as over 10 million went on strike, factories and campuses were occupied, and pitched battles were fought on the streets of Paris between riot police and students. Its roots were many and varied, its consequences equally diverse, but the slogans and images of May - utopia and spectacle, pure politics and pure play - gained mythic status as founding texts of a new cultural politics. This is the first book-length study of May 68 in French fiction and film. Eight texts, including works by Beauvoir, Cardinal, Godard, and Kristeva, are chosen to present major features of May and its aftermath, and to highlight the importance of language, image, and spectacle in the cultural and intellectual history of an extraordinary event.
MoreLong description:
This is the first study of May 68 in fiction and in film. It looks at the ways the events themselves were represented in narrative, evaluates the impact these crucial times had on French cultural and intellectual history, and offers readings of texts which were shaped by it. The chosen texts concentrate upon important features of May and its aftermath: the student rebellion, the workers strikes, the question of the intellectuals, sexuality, feminism, the political thriller, history, and textuality. Attention is paid to the context of the social and cultural history of the Fifth Republic, to Gaullism, and to the cultural politics of gauchisme. The book aims to show the importance of the interplay of real and imaginary in the text(s) of May, and the emphasis placed upon the problematic of writing and interpretation. It argues that re-reading the texts of May forces a reconsideration of the existing accounts of postwar cultural history. The texts of May reflect on social order, on rationality, logic, and modes of representation, and are this highly relevant to contemporary debates on modernity.
While some prior knowledge of the history and literature of contemporary France is necessary to appreciate the many strands of this book for their complex but clear analyses, the lively documentary style will give much pause for thought to those new to the fields covered. Books should make one want to ask questions and find out more. This one certainly does as it brings together a gamut of ways of reading recent history and tests ways in which the myths, too, of May 68 may be re-evaluated.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: L'Imaginaire de mai
L'Avant-mai: la France sennuie
Nanterre-La-Folie
Order and Disorder: Scenes of Violence
Intellectual Fictions
Perturbation ma soeur
Nation/History: Repenser la France
Le neo-polar: Behind Enemy Lines
Textualities and l'espirit de mai
Conclusion: From Modernity to Postmodernity
Chronology
Bibliography
