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Derek Schilling is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University

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This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the 'film de banlieue'.

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Introduction - Philippe Met and Derek Schilling 1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80 - Annie Fourcaut 2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920 - Roland-François Lack 3 Roads, rivers and canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo - Jean-Louis Pautrot 4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s - Keith Reader 5 Julien Duvivier and interwar 'banlieutopia' - Margaret C. Flinn 6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens - Eric Bullot 7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue - Tristan Jean 8 Tati, suburbia and modernity - Malcolm Turvey 9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe - Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck 10 Godard's suburban years - Térésa Faucon 11 The banlieue wore black: postwar French polar, from Becker to Corneau - Philippe Met 12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80 - Camille Canteux 13 Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968 - Derek Schilling 14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau - David Vasse 15 What's left of the 'red suburb'? Hervé Le Roux's Reprise as case study - Guillaume Soulez Index