Forrest, D. and Merrington, P. (2022) A ‘space to imagine’: Frenchness and the pleasures and labours of art cinema in the English regions. Studies in European Cinema, 19 (4). pp. 380-396. ISSN 1741-1548
Abstract
This article explores focus group responses to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (2016). The focus groups were conducted across four English regions in Autumn 2018, and drew participants from a range of social, cultural and economic backgrounds. The responses reveal some of the ways in which audiences in the English regions form and make meaning around particular kinds of textual and contextual experiences of cinemagoing and consumption. In particular, the article aims to develop our understanding of contemporary art cinema to take account of the ways in which audiences identify and respond to a film clip which captures the particular textual characteristics associated with the mode. Our research finds that for many, the pleasures of art cinema are contingent on participation within related, elite social and cultural practices, whereas for others, art cinema conventions operate as sites of labour and exclusion. The responses also reveal some of the ways in which narratives of nationhood are constructed in relation to art cinema The methodological approach of the research, drawing on film elicitation, indicates ways in which traditional models of textual analysis might be enriched by more pluralised accounts of the relationships between form and meaning.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Art Cinema, Mia hansen-løve, Focus Groups, 'Cinematic Frenchness' |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts and Humanities Research Council AH/P005780/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2021 12:33 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jun 2024 14:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17411548.2021.1886443 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170751 |