Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites

Volume 4, Issue 2

Cinema/Video/New Media

Fall 2000

Guest Co-Editor: Timothy Murray

Cover photo by Laurent Philippe

Interviews
Jacques Rancière
Michèle Waquant
Paul Virlio

Articles & Essays
Tim Murray--Facing French Digitality in the Global Sphere
Samuel Weber--The Virtuality of the Media
Judith Maybe--Henri-Georges Couzot's Le Corbeau and the Crimes of Women
Alec Hargreaves--Resuscitating the Father: New Cinematic Representations of the Maghrebi Minority in France
Dominique Bluher--Souviens-toi de moi: A Hip Hop Film?
Maureen Turim--Virtual Discourses of History: Collage, Narrative, or Documents in Chris Marker's Level 5
Carina Yervasi--Dislocating the Domestic in Chantal Ackerman's Jeanne Dielman
Grace An--Par-Asian Screen Women and Film Identities: THe Vampiric in Olivier Assaya's Irma Vep
Tom Conley--Revamping Irma: Immodest Reflections on French Cinema and Globalization
Reda Bensmaia--Barthes/Godard: l'essai cinématographique est-il possible?
Vanessa Manko--Paradis: the Tethering of Terpischore and Technology
Cynthia Marker--Safi Faye and Sarah Maldoror: Cinécrivaines of African Cinema
Geneviève Sellier--Masculinity and Politics in New Wave Cinema

Fiction & Poetry
Benoit Conort--Cette vie est la notre
Sandra Moussempes--Vestiges de fillette/Vestiges of Girlhood
Maurice Dantec--Les racines du mal/The Roots of Evil

Questionnaire

If Cinema can be said to constitute the representational site par excellence of the 20th century, how might you understand its past, present, or future in relation to developments in video and new media?