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Contents
Grace An and James Austin
Editors' Preface: New Spaces for French and Francophone Cinema
I. French National/Transnational Cinema
Roger Celestin
Conquering Globalized Space? A Certain French Cinema Abroad
Grace An
The Future Past of the French Auteur
Catherine Portugues
The NewWave of Women Filmmakers
Michel Marie
New Spaces in French Cinema: Off the Beaten Path: The Periphery of the
Hexagon and its Geographical Limits
Sue Harris
The Place of Comedy at the French Box Office in the 21st Century
II. Representing Space in Cinema and New Media
Ludovic Cortade
The Spatial Evacuation of Politics: Landscape, Power, and the Monarch in Robert Guédiguian's The Last Mitterand
James Austin
Destroying the banlieue: Re-configuration of Suburban Space in French
Film
Margaret Flinn
Signs of the Times: Chris Marker's Chats perchés
Timothy Murray
Voyage to the Center of the Virtual Universe
III. Postcolonial Locations: Francophone Film and Algeria
Guy Austin
Algeria and Colonial Trauma in Contemporary French Cinema
Panivong Norindr
On Filmic Pedagogy and Performance: Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes
Dominic Thomas
Africa/France: Contest(ed)ing Space in the Hexagon
