Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film by Kelley Conway (Engli

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Presents a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. This book offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the cafe-concert.

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Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life, and the rough neighborhoods of Paris. Icon of working-class femininity and the underworld, the realist singer signaled the emergence of new cultural roles for women as well as shifts in the nature of popular entertainment. Chanteuse in the City provides a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Fréhel, and Damia. Above all, Conway offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the café-concert. Conway uncovers an important tradition of female performance in the golden era of French film, usually viewed as a cinema preoccupied with masculinity. She shows how-in films such as Pépé le Moko, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, and Zouzou-the realist chanteuse addresses female despair at the hopelessness of love. Conway also sheds light on the larger cultural implications of the shift from the intimate café-concert to the spectacular music hall, before the talkies displaced both kinds of live performance altogether.

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"This book represents a significant contribution to scholarship, and will fill a serious gap. Conway's entirely original research is well structured and clearly written, imparts expert readings, and is strengthened by historical groundedness. This is an extremely important book."--Christopher Faulkner, Carleton University, author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir "Offers fresh, challenging perspectives on French film history, on women in French cinema, and on the relationship between film of the 1930s and the city of Paris."--Judith Mayne, Ohio State University, author of Cinema and Spectatorship

Author Biography

Kelley Conway is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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"Conway's entirely original research is well structured and clearly written, imparts expert readings, and is strengthened by historical groundedness. This is an extremely important book." - Christopher Faulkner, author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir; "Conway's study offers fresh, challenging perspectives on French film history, on women in French cinema, and on the relationship between film of the 1930s and the city of Paris." - Judith Mayne, author of Cinema and Spectatorship"

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Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life, and the rough neighborhoods of Paris. Icon of working-class femininity and the underworld, the realist singer signaled the emergence of new cultural roles for women as well as shifts in the nature of popular entertainment.Chanteuse in the Cityprovides a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Fr

Details ISBN0520244079 Author Kelley Conway Short Title CHANTEUSE IN THE CITY Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520244079 ISBN-13 9780520244078 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2004 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle The Realist Singer in French Film Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Place of Publication Berkerley Birth 1963 DOI 10.1604/9780520244078 UK Release Date 2004-09-08 AU Release Date 2004-09-08 NZ Release Date 2004-09-08 US Release Date 2004-09-08 Pages 273 Publication Date 2004-09-08 DEWEY 782.42164 Illustrations 31 b-w photographs Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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