Table of Contents
Introduction: From Engagé to Indigné: French Cinema and the Crises of Globalization
Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Illégal: How to Narrate Silence and Horror
Hope and Indignation in Fortress Europe: Immigration and Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary French Cinema
The Last Working Class City in France: Gheerbrant’s La république Marseille and Post-Global Cinema
Lessons for the Neoliberal Age: Cinema and Social Solidarity from Jean Renoir to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
The Crisis before the Crisis: Reading Films by Laurent Cantet and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Through the Lens of Debt
Claire Denis and the World Cinema of Refusal
Responding to Globalization: The Evolution of Agnès Varda
Interpreting Intouchables: Competing Transnationalisms in Contemporary French Cinema
Tracking the Global through the Local: Slon/Iskra’s Documentaries of Displacement
The Linguistic Return: Deconstruction as Textual Messianism
Mannerism, Baroque, and Modernism: Deleuze and the Essence of Art
The Mother of Us All?