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Managing Editor Sharon L. Shelly College of Wooster

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Dissertations in

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Wynne Wong

Albert Valdman Marie-Christine Koop

John Anzalone

Edward Ousselin

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University of Arkansas

Ohio State University

Indiana University

University of North Texas Skid more College

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Assistant Editors (Pedagogy)

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Virginia M. Scott, Vanderbilt University

Assistant Editors

Barbara Bullock, Pennsylvania State

University (Linguistics) Clyde Thogmartin, Iowa State University

(Linguistics) Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University

(Society and Culture) Michel Gueldry, Monterey Institute of

International Studies (Society and

Culture) Caroline M. Eades, University of Maryland,

College Park (Film)

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON CINEMAS

1163 From the Editor's Desk

ARTICLES

LITERATURE

1168 This article challenges the canonical

reading of Renoir's 1936 Le Crime de Monsieur Lange as the quintessential

Katherine Popular Front film depicting a successful Golsan workers7 cooperative and the "collective"

murder of a crooked, small-time capitalist "Valentine's boss. An analysis of gender relations in the Love Story: film uncovers a conflict between feminine Feminine discursive power (Valentine, who tells the Discursive tale) and a cinematographic strategy that Power and Its covertly privileges the fetishized image of Limits in Le the idealized woman. Key female Crime de characters, Lange's serial Arizona Jim, and

Monsieur the famous 360-degree plan and other non

Lange" "realist" camera and editing styles are

reconsidered in light of this gendered juxtaposition of word and image.

1187 Les arrets sur image chez Truffaut

revetent plusieurs fonctions. Dans Les

Ludo vie Quatre Cents Coups, le figement ne Cortade correspond a aucune conclusion et

exacerbe le desir de la fiction a venir.

"Francois Dans Jules et Jim, ils constituent d'une Truffaut en part un point de cristallisation de trois

Pygmalion: les mouvements charnieres du recit. D'autre

arrets sur image part, ils renvoient a un point de vue

dans Les Quatre exterieur a la narration, celui de Truffaut

Cents Coups et lui-meme associant le desir de Jules et Jim" mouvement a la nostalgie de

l'immobilite; tel est ce que j'appelle le

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1195 Les Triplettes de Belleville, film d'animation franco

beige et canadien, realise par Sylvain Chomet en Annie Jouan- 2003, presente un monde decale, aux antipodes de Westlund Disney, dans une immense cite franco-americaine,

croisement hybride de New York, Paris et Montreal.

"I/Imaginaire Cet article est une exploration de l'univers biculturel - populaire du film qui superpose et brouille, avec humour et franco- esthetisme, les imaginaires populaires francais et

americain dans americain. L'analyse des representations culturelles

Les Triplettes de de la France et de l'Amerique dans l'intrigue, les Belleville" personnages et le decor du film, montre que ce film

d'un nouveau genre est une remise en question des

stereotypes et du phenomene de la mondialisation.

1206 Dans l'ceuvre de Bertrand Tavernier, les personnages feminins occupent une place a la fois essentielle et

ambigue: formes d'elements composites et Caroline Eades recurrents, reduits au statut de forme sans

profondeur, improductifs et marginalises, souvent

"Les associes a l'image de la femme-enfant, objets de la

Personnages violence et du regard masculins, ils contribuent a la

feminins de representation des dysfonctionnements de la cellule Bertrand familiale qui caracterisent la plupart des films de Tavernier: entre Tavernier. Pourtant c'est precisement par sa fonction

image et idee'' dans la structure du recit filmique et son role de

catalyseur voire d'embrayeur que le personnage feminin parvient a favoriser chez les spectateurs le

passage de l'image a l'idee.

1222 Mambety's beautiful, short, feminist film concerns,

Charles J. among other things, two illiterate teenage newspaper

Sugnet sellers in Dakar who carry around a book by Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor that they cannot

"Wolof Orality, read. The film holds both the Senegalese state and

Senghorian the international financial system responsible for the

Literacy, and scandal of their illiteracy, but it also demonstrates the Status of that the two teenagers are still in possession of their Cinema in cultural patrimony through orally transmitted

Djibril Diop knowledge. This article analyzes how Mambety Mambety's La avoids the sterile binary opposition between Wolof Petite Vendeuse oral tradition and French literate modernity by de Soleil" offering cinema itself as a form of secondary oral

mediation that can encompass both.

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1239 Raoul Peck, cineaste haitien, prend comme toile de fond la repression politique de la dictature duvalieriste pour son long metrage L'Homme sur les

quais realise en 1993. C'est dans une atmosphere de

Stephanie violence et de repression que la protagoniste du film, Berard la petite Sarah agee de huit ans, est temoin d'une

scene traumatisante qui reste gravee dans sa

"Raoul Peck, memoire. L'enfant refoule dans son inconscient ce

cineaste haitien: drame qu'elle tentera, une fois parvenue a l'age 'L'Homme sur adulte, de faire remonter a la conscience et de

les quais'" comprendre. Raoul Peck nous conduit aux confins

du reve et de la realite, entre conscience et

inconscient dans les souvenirs hallucines de Sarah

qui creuse sa memoire, l'interroge pour recomposer le passe enterre et disloque d'une enfance bris?e.

PEDAGOGY

1252 Francis Veber's carefully constructed film, Le Diner de cons, is both entertaining and thoughtful. Its thematic

Anita Jon emphasis on modern technology makes it an ideal Alkhas vehicle for examining how DVD technology can

contribute most effectively to language learning. The "DVD for primary focus of this article is on how to make an Dummies: optimal transition to DVD, including specific Lessons in techniques for exploiting the enhanced capabilities of

Technology the medium. In addition, a detailed analysis of the from Le Diner film and sample activities suitable for a variety of de cons" levels are provided for the benefit of teachers who

use the film in class.

IN YOUR CORNER: FOCUS ON THE CLASSROOM

1266 The Cannes Film Festival, a WebQuest for intermediate learners of French, focuses on the annual film festival

of long standing. Its exercises aim to develop balanced

linguistic skills while promoting cultural knowledge. Paulette S. In this internet-based resource, students augment their

Hacker knowledge of film as a particular medium of communication while they conduct research on

"A WebQuest various aspects of the Cannes Film Festival. They enter for Intermediate into the dynamics of the industry, familiarize Learners of themselves with specific cinematic terminology, create

French: The advertisements, develop scripts, compose film reviews, Cannes Film and gather information on the history of this world Festival" renowned ceremony. During the course of their

investigations, they are also led to consider the

influence of critics on public opinion as they develop their own critical perspective regarding film.

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INTERVIEWS

1276 Over a twenty year span, Les Films d'ici has become a John Anzalone reference point for documentary films d'auteur on the et Oona Parisian marketplace. The house has been the quiet Bijasson champion of a set of values in filmmaking that have

earned it the respect of peers, critics, and academics.

"Ecriture, In 2003 we had a freewheeling conversation with cinemas: un Richard Copans, co-founder of Les Films d'ici, about entretien avec his company and his own career as filmmaker, Richard Copans cameraman/and producer. Drawing examples from et Marie- his two most recent films, Racines and Paris-Perif we

Frederique asked him to define the parameters of writing for the Lauriot dit cinema from those three prespectives. The Prevost" conversation that emerged sheds unusual light on

contemporary practices in a major film production company.

1286 Carmen Coll Depuis une trentaine d'annees, la France assiste a la montee d'une generation de realisatrices. De plus en

"Une Nouvelle plus de cineastes femmes occupent le devant de la Generation de scene. Apres un survol de la situation, tout en

realisatrices: un evoquant les raisons de cet etat de choses, l'auteur

entretien avec illustre cette montee en interviewant l'une d'entre

Jeanne elles, Jeanne Labrune?cineaste singuliere qui merite Labrune" d'etre connue sur la scene internationale.

1298 Le cinema senegalais est un des plus vibrants du

continent noir, un des plus murs aussi de l'espace

francophone africain. Cinema d'auteur, ses succes

nous ont revele quelques sommites: Ousmane

Jean Ouedraogo Sembene, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Djibril Diop Mambety. Entre temps une generation intermediate

"Entretien avec et une plus jeune contribuent a preserver la vitalite

Ben Diogaye de sa production nonobstant les multiples pesanteurs Beye" liees a sa distribution et a sa diffusion au niveau

national. Realisateur et scenariste, Ben Diogaye Beye incarne de par ses films la fierte, les atouts et le

questionnement qui parcourent le cinema senegalais voire africain.

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FILMOGRAPHY

1310 This inventory complements work that Pallister and Hottell have published on Francophone Women Directors and on French-speaking Women

Janis L. Pallister Documentarians. It follows the same format, listing and Ruth A. filmmakers alphabetically by country or continent Hottell (Africa, Canada, France, etc.), and then describing the

film. For brevity's sake, we have suppressed credits

"Short Fiction and any prizes won. This information is often Films by available at the Internet sites we have given in the

Francophone text and in the notes. On the other hand, we have Women tried to provide the contact for the film in question Directors" whenever possible. We trust that this information

will be useful in the classroom setting.

NOTE

1351 Colette Dio: "La Vie des mots"

REVIEWS

LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM

1356 Mehta, Brinda, Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers

Negotiate the Kala Pani (Charles R. Batson); 1357 Ndiaye, Christiane, ed., Introduction aux litteratures francophones: Afrique,

Caratbe, Maghreb (Kanate Dahouda); 1358 Laroussi, Farid, and Christopher L. Miller, eds., French and Francophone:

The Challenge of Expanding Horizons (Marco D. Roman); 1359 Accarie, Maurice, Theatre, litterature et societe au Moyen Age (Kristin L.

Burr); 1361 Burgwinkle, William E., Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval

Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 (Norris J. Lacy); 1362 Preisig, Florian, Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de l'auteur a Yaube de la

Renaissance (Frangois Rigolot); 1363 Peters, Jeffrey N., Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern

French Writing (Stephanie O'Hara); 1364 Pierse, Siofra, ed., The City in French Writing: The Eighteenth-Century

Experience (Gita May); 1365 Show alter, English, Frangoise de Graffigny: Her Life and Works (Janie

Vanpee); 1366 Pety, Dominique, Les Goncourt et la collection: de Vobjet d'art a I'art d'ecrire

(James P. Gilroy); 1367 Brix, Michel, Sade et les felons (Michael E. Winston); 1369 Swain, Virginia E., Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics

of Modernity (Dorothy M. Betz);

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1370 Peebles, Catherine Mv The Psyche of Feminism: Sand, Colette, Sarraute (Karlis Racevskis);

1371 Bell, David F. Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola (John T. Booker);

1372 Unwin, Timothy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (Hope Christiansen);

1373 Evans, David, Rhythm, Illusion, and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme (Rosemary Lloyd);

1374 Dupont, Jacques, Physique de Colette (Catherine Slawy-Sutton); 1375 Domenget, Jean-Franc;ois, Montherlant critique (David O'Connell); 1376 Renard, Paul, ed., Vie et aventures de Salavin de Georges Duhamel (Richard

Bourcier); 1377 Motte, Warren, and Jean-Jacques Poucet, eds., Pereckoning: Reading

Georges Perec (Michel Sirvent).

CREATIVE WORKS

1379 Authier, Christian, Enterrement de vie de gargon (Michel Gueldry); 1380 Besson, Philippe, Les Jours fragiles (Kathryn M. Bulver); 1380 Broussard, Yves, La Nuit tremblee et Mesures de la vie (Andrea Moorhead); 1382 Carrier, Roch, Les Moines dans la tour (Anne-Marie Gronhovd); 1383 Chandernagor, Francoise, Couleur du temps (Martine Motard-Noar); 1384 Chatelet, Noelle, La Derniere Legon (Lucia A. DiBenedetto); 1385 Chawaf, Chantal, Infra-Monde (Monique Saigal); 1386 DELArvE, Serge, Cafe Europa (Jason Herbeck); 1388 Delerm, Philippe, Enregistrements pirates (Michael Kline); 1388 De Muralt, Sabine, Tout un monde (Dominique S. Thevenin); 1389 Desbiolles, Maryline, Le Goinfre (Mary Gegerias); 1390 Diemai, Abdelkader, Le Nez sur la vitre (Najib Redouane); 1392 Grimbert, Sibylle, II n'y a pas de secret (Catherine Slawy-Sutton); 1393 Kristeva, Julia, Meurtre a Byzance (Laurence Enjolras); 1394 Laclavetine, Jean-Marie, Matins bleus (Claudine G. Fisher); 1395 Maalouf, Amin, Origines (Zakaria Fatih); 1396 Moorhead, Andrea, Presence de la terre (Karin Egloff); 1397 Noel, Bernard, Les Yeux dans la couleur (Mark Andrew Hall); 1398 Prolongeau, Hubert, Le Baiser de Judas (Kenneth J. Fleurant); 1399 Ravalec, Vincent, Nouvelles du monde entier (Jon Hassel); 1400 Simon, Sophie, Un Sujet de conversation (Judith Holland Sarnecki).

LINGUISTICS

1402 Bouvier, Jean-Claude, Espaces du langage: geolinguistique, toponymie, cul

tures de Voral et de Vecrit (Thomas T. Field); 1403 Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century

France (William J. Ashby); 1404 Bres, Jacques, LImparfait dit narratif (Thomas J. Cox).

COURSE MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY

1405 Les Choristes (Lois K. Beck); 1406 Thompson, Chantal P., and Elaine M. Phillips, Mais Oui, Third Edition

(Tricia McLeroy);

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1407 Colina, Sonia, Translation Teaching: From Research to the Classroom.

(Christiane Laeufer); 1408 Wong, Wynne, Input Enhancement: From Theory and Research to the Classroom.

(Virginia M. Scott).

FILM

1410 The 2006 Boston French Film Festival (Patricia Westphal).

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

1411 Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Histoire humaine et comparee du climat: canicules et glaciers (XIIIe-XVIIIe siecles) (Arnaud Perret);

1412 Berkovitz, Jay R., Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture

in France, 1650-1860 (Clara Krug); 1414 Smith, Jay Mv Nobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century

France (Allison Stedman); 1415 Hanson, Paul R., Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution (Kathleen

Hardesty Doig); 1416 Barker, Emma, Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment (Gita May); 1417 Lincoln, Margarette, ed., Nelson and Napoleon (James P. Gilroy); 1418 Martin, Benjamin Fv France in 1938 (Mary Helen Kashuba); 1419 Grant, Kim, Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception (Laurence M.

Porter); 1420 Rohou, Jean, Fils de ploucs, Tome I: le pays, les gens, notre vie (Ar Vro, an dud,

or buez) (Jacques M. Laroche); 1422 Renaut, Alain et Alain Touraine, Un Debat sur la laicite (Edward

Ousselin).

1425 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

1426 LIST OF EDITORS 1427 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS 1429 ANNOUNCEMENTS

1431 AATF

1432 INFORMATION PAGE 1433 OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION 1435 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE AATF 1442 MOTIONS PASSED AT THE QUEBEC CONVENTION, JULY 2005 1446 MINUTES OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DELEGATES 1451 FINANCIAL REPORT 1463 REGIONS AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES 1463 MEMBERSHIP AND SUBSCRIPTION FORM 1464 CHANGE OF ADDRESS PAGE 1465 ROSTER OF CHAPTER PRESIDENTS 1466 NATIONAL FRENCH CONTEST ADMINISTRATORS

1469 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES

1473 QUEBEC CULTURAL SERVICES

1477 INDEX TO VOLUME 79

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Forthcoming October 2006 (Vol. 80.1)

L'ANNEE LITTERAIRE

PEDAGOGY

"Thinking in English, Writing in French" (Elizabeth M. Knutson)

LINGUISTICS "Les Traitements des insultes racistes et sexistes dans les dictionnaires bilingues"

(Elisabeth Campbell)

LITERATURE

"Reading the Preface to Marie Bashkirt Seff's Journal through Rousseau's

Confessions" (Sonia Wilson) "Emotion and Poetry in Condillac's Theory of Language and Mind" (R. Christopher

Coski)

INTERVIEW "Entretien avec Patrick Chamoiseau" (Janice Morgan)

NOTE "La Vie des mots" (Colette Dio)

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publication). Authors of interviews should use "Q:" and "R:" to indicate questions and an swers. They should also provide an introduction to the author and a list of "Works Cited/'

9. Exceptions to the MLA Handbook: articles written in French should be prepared in accor dance with certain French typographical norms. For instance, endnote numbers and closing quotation marks precede punctuation, and ellipses are indicated by three periods in square brackets without spaces between the periods [...]. An illustration of these rules: "De breves

proses que j'en suis venu a ecrire [...] ressemblent aussi a des reves"5. On the other hand, French Review style differs from French typographical practice by not inserting a space be tween a word and a subsequent semicolon, colon, question mark, or exclamation mark. In

addition, English quotation marks are used, and not French guillemets. 10. Authors should never practice multiple submissions, that is, sending the same article

to more than one journal at the same time. The French Review has an enviable record of fur

nishing a prompt answer on submissions. If, after devoting considerable time to a manu

script, the French Review's editors and consultants learn that it has been accepted elsewhere

(or, for that matter, that the author is guilty of plagiarism), we will not entertain a submis sion from that person again.

11. We publish, with extremely rare and noteworthy exception, only material that has not

appeared elsewhere (either in the original or in translation). As an extension of this rule, we do not publish book reviews of translated works.

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