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Overview"At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Golden Palm, and L'humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize; both won acting awards as well. Taking this ""miracle"" of Cannes as the point of departure, Niels Niessen identifies a transregional film movement in the French-Belgian border region—the Cinéma du Nord or ""cinema of the North."" He examines this movement within the contexts of French and Belgian national cinemas from the silent era to the digital age, as well as that of the new realist tendency in world cinema of the last three decades. In addition, he traces, from a northern perspective, a secular-religious tradition in Francophone-European film and philosophy from Bresson and Pialat, via Bazin, Deleuze, and Godard, to the Dardennes and Dumont, while critiquing this tradition for its frequent use of a humanist vocabulary of grace for a secular world. Once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the Franco-Belgian Nord faced economic crisis for most of the twentieth century. Miraculous Realism demonstrates that the Cinéma du Nord's rise to prominence resulted from the region's endeavor to reinvent itself economically and culturally at the crossroads of Europe after decades of recession." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niels NiessenPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438477343ISBN 10: 1438477341 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 02 January 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations A North Wind, or The Miracle of Cannes 1999 Introduction: A Critical Fairy Tale 1 Hunting for Easter Eggs in Rosetta and L'humanité A Normal Life | humanity with a small h | The Acting/ Acted Body | Of Little Flies and Burned-Out Priests | a north wind | Game Over, or The Moral of the Story 2 Coal-Fired Dreams, the Cinéma du Nord The Nord | From Pays Noir to Euroregion | Between Utopia and Dystopia: Wallonia in the Cinema | Not Paris: Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Cinema | Conclusion | Of Giants, Angels, and Humans 3 Cinéma du Nord, a Euregional Cinema Transnational Coproduction | Argument | Terre d'Images: Northern French Cinema within French National Cinema | Yes We Cannes: Francophone-Belgian Cinema in Its Walloon Manifestation | At the Crossroads of Europe | Google, Van Gogh, the Louvre-Lens, and a Terril of Coats Excursion: From the Nord, with Love 4 New Realism after the Modern Cinema What Is Realism? | Neorealism | From Neo to New: Miraculous Realism | The Modern Cinema | The Acting/ Acted Image| The Question of Grace in Francophone European Film Philosophy Epilogue: Posthumanism Acknowledgments Notes Films Referenced Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book not only makes a major contribution to the field but also creates a new area in this field: the opening up of discussion of the Cinema du Nord in geopolitical, historical, and theoretical terms, through a blend of fine close reading and broader commentary. - Sarah Cooper, author of The Soul of Film Theory """…the broad approach of Miraculous Realism signals Niessen's laudable, and largely successful effort to examine this titular phenomenon at the broadest level; while the Cinéma du Nord may in itself be a very well-delineated particular phenomenon, it can of course not be considered outside of these broader, decades-long discussions about cinema and realism, which as Niessen convincingly shows, often collapse into a kind of nostalgia for Christian immanence and redemption."" — Studies in European Cinema ""This book not only makes a major contribution to the field but also creates a new area in this field: the opening up of discussion of the Cinéma du Nord in geopolitical, historical, and theoretical terms, through a blend of fine close reading and broader commentary."" — Sarah Cooper, author of The Soul of Film Theory" Author InformationNiels Niessen is a Researcher in Arts and Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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