La Haine (French Film Guides) - Softcover

Vincendeau, Ginette

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9780252073328: La Haine (French Film Guides)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252073320 ISBN 13: 9780252073328

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2005

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Released in 1995, "La Haine" is the black and white chronicle of 24 hours in the life of a mixed-race young male trio from a run-down Parisian suburb. The work of a then unknown young team (director and actors were all under 30), it became hugely and unexpectedly successful, launching director Mathieu Kassovitz and lead player Vincent Cassel to stardom.The film's combination of hard-hitting social expose, stylish black and white cinematography and hip-hop culture also turned it into an enduring cult movie with younger viewers. With great style and insight, Ginette Vincendeau provides a thorough understanding of the context of the film's making, its narrative tension, stylistic sophistication and ideological ambiguity and of its extraordinary success nationally and internationally. She thus explains why, out of so many films about disaffected youth, "La Haine" is the one that caught the imagination, becoming an instant classic.

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"A great companion for fans of the 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz film of the same name."--"Film Matters" "Although there have been numerous journal articles and book chapters written about "La Haine, " Vincendeau's volume is by far the most comprehensive and perceptive to date . . . Like the film itself, Vincendeau's technical analysis is nothing short of dazzling."--"H-France Review"" "Although there have been numerous journal articles and book chapters written about "La Haine, " Vincendeau's volume is by far the most comprehensive and perceptive to date . . . Like the film itself, Vincendeau's technical analysis is nothing short of dazzling."--"H-France Review"

About the Author:

Ginette Vincendeau is a professor of film studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Melville: An American in Paris and Stars and Stardom in French Cinema. She is the editor of Film/Literature/Heritage: A Sight and Sound Reader."

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