A-Level Media Studies Information Pack: Disaster Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Ginette Vincendeau

Movies

British Film Institute

<p>This text includes discussions of a selection of literary adaptations, from Shakespeare to William Burroughs, as well as interviews with screenwriters and adaptors. It covers the major films from "Elizabeth" to " LA Confidential", and directors from Martin Scorsese to Peter Greenaway.</p>

Film/Literature/Heritage: A Sight and Sound Reader

Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris

Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville's love of American culture and his controversial critical and political standing in this English language study.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The story behind the surprise success of a young crew’s film of alienation and rebellion   Released in 1995, La Haine is a raw, edgy drama about three mixed-race young men from a run-down Parisian suburb who decide to take on the police after a friend is brutally beaten. The work of a then unknown young team (director and actors were all under 30), it became hugely and unexpectedly successful both commercially and critically, launching director Mathieu Kassovitz and lead player Vincent Cassel to stardom. The film’s combination of hard-hitting social exposé, stylish black and white cinematography and hip-hop culture also turned it into an enduring cult movie with younger viewers.  With style and insight, Ginette Vincendeau provides a thorough understanding of the context of the film’s making, both in terms of the film industry and of French society, of the film’s narrative tension, stylistic sophistication and ideological ambiguity, and of its extraordinary success nationally and internationally. She explains why, out of so many films about disaffected youth, La Haine is the one that caught the audience’s imagination, becoming an instant classic.

La Haine (Cine-file French Film Guides)

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

ANATOMIE D'UN MYTHE-JEAN GABIN

NATHAN SCOLAIRE

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