Still French? France and the Challenge of Diversity, 1985–2015 Nottingham French Studies Volume 54, Number 3 Alec Hargreaves December 2015 Pb • 978 1 4744 0660 4 • £16.99 BIC: CFDM, JFFN, JHMC 128 pp 240 x 165 mm Dedicated to the entire range of French and Francophone studies Description The Editor In a provocative 1985 cover story featuring the face of Marianne obscured by an Alec Hargreaves, Formerly Director Islamic veil, Le Figaro Magazine asked: "Serons-nous encore français dans trente of the Winthrop-King Institute ans?". With those 30 years now spanned, where does France stand in relation to for Contemporary French and the fears, challenges and opportunities associated with changing perceptions Francophone Studies at Florida of ethnic and cultural diversity within and beyond the nation’s borders? Is the State University, and Head of the France of 2015 still French in the same way or to the same degree as the France Department of European Studies, of 1985? Where do the most significant challenges to "Frenchness" now lie? In Loughborough University, he has Islamism? In the "banlieues"? In European integration? In American hegemony? authored and edited numerous Is "Frenchness" itself, championed by political elites under the banner of publications on the cultural and "l’exception culturelle", an outmoded concept, destined to wither in the face political dynamics of postcolonialiam of transnational forces? These are among the issues addressed by contributors in the French-speaking world. to this volume, spanning a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches including politics, literature, film and sport. Series Key Features Nottingham French Studies Special Issues • Multidisciplinary volume • Contributions by leading authorities on key aspects of current debates Readership • Offers a unique focus and comparison of developments within the past 30 years Scholars and students within and beyond French and Francophone Studies, including cultural studies, migration studies, contemporary history and world studies. Film Studies The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com New in Paperback Films on Ice Cinemas of the Arctic Edited by Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport December 2015 Pb • 978 1 4744 0901 8 • £24.99 BIC: APFA, APFN, JFCA, JFDT 384 pp 234 x 156 mm 52 b&w illustrations Alternative Formats: Hb • 978 0 7486 9417 4 • £70.00 • December 2014 Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9418 1 • £70.00 A comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes: The Arctic Description The Editors The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas Scott MacKenzie teaches in the from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice presents the region as one of great Department of Film and Media, and and previously overlooked cinematic diversity. With chapters on polar explorer is cross-appointed to the Graduate films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender Program in Cultural Studies, at Queen’s and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR’s uses and abuses of the Arctic, University, Canada. this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present and radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region. Anna Westerståhl Stenport is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Media and Cinema Studies, and Key Features Director of the European Union Center, • Transforms the study, reception and reach of Arctic cinema, film and moving at the University of Illinois at Urbana- image culture Champaign. • Establishes the significance of the term Global North in relation to film studies • Brings together an international array of European, Russian, Nordic and North Series American scholars and researchers, with content expertise transcending limited national or regional boundaries Traditions in World Cinema Readership Students and academics in Film Studies, National Cinemas and Emerging Cinemas. Film Studies The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com New in Paperback Films on Ice Cinemas of the Arctic Edited by Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport List of Contributors • Marco Bohr is a photographer, academic and researcher in visual culture. He received his PhD from the University of Westminster in 2011 and was appointed Lecturer in Visual communication at Loughborough University in 2012. • Marian Bredin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, at Brock University in Canada. • Lyubov Bugaeva is Dr hab. in Philology and Associate Professor at St Petersburg State University, Russia. • Marina Dahlquist is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. • Jan Anders Diesen is Professor of Film History at Lillehammer University College, Norway. • Ann Fienup-Riordan is a cultural anthropologist and independent scholar who has lived and worked in Alaska since 1973. • Rebecca Genauer is a film studies PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. • Sabine Henlin-Strømme received her PhD from the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa in 2012. She currently teaches French at the Bergen Community College. • Caroline Forcier Holloway is an Audio-Visual Archivist at Library and Archives Canada. • Johanne Haaber Ihle holds a BA degree in Arabic from the University of Copenhagen and a MA degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. • Gunnar Iversen is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. • Anne Mette Jørgensen has an MA in anthropology and is a PhD candidate at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark. • Pietari Kääpä is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the Department of Communications, Media and Culture, University of Stirling. • Lill-Ann Körber, Dr phil., is an Assistant Professor at the Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. • Eva la Cour holds a degree from the Jutland Art Academy in Denmark and from Media & Visual Anthropology at Freie Universitat in Berlin. Currently she is artist-in-residence at Global High-Schools in Denmark, teaching the course ‘Mediating the Arctic’. • Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from University of Colorado, Boulder. She currently runs the Icelandic BA Programme at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London. • Scott MacKenzie teaches film and media at Queen’s University, where he is cross-appointed to the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, and a Visiting Research Associate at the Danish Film Institute (2013–17). • Monica Kim Mecsei is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. • Sarah Neely is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling, where she is a member of the Centre for Scottish Studies and the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies. • Björn Norðfjörðis an Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Iceland. • Russell A. Potter writes about the depiction of the Arctic the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and teaches English and Media Studies at Rhode Island College. • Mark Sandberg is Professor of Film and Scandinavian Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. • Oksana Sarkisova, PhD, is Associate Researcher at Central European University working on the issues of socialist cultural history, memory and representation, film history and amateur photography. • Daria Shembel earned her PhD in Slavic Studies and Film from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Since 2005 she has been teaching European Studies, New Media and Film at San Diego State University. • Anna Westerståhl Stenport (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a visiting research associate at the Danish Film Institute (2013–17). • Kirsten Thisted is an Associate Professor at Copenhagen University, Institute of Film Studies Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Minority Studies Section. Film Studies • Ebbe Volquardsen is a Doctoral Fellow at Justus-Liebig-Universitat The Tun – Holyrood Road, Giessen (Germany). 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Textbook Slow Cinema Edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge December 2015 Pb • 978 0 7486 9604 8 • £24.99 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN 320 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Hb • 978 0 7486 9602 4 • £70.00 Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9603 1 • £70.00 Eb (epub) • 978 0 7486 9605 5 • £24.99 Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history Description The Editors In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a Tiago de Luca is Lecturer in Film number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have Studies at the University of Liverpool. garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose