![]() ![]() Cinema-and maybe French cinema especially-is thought of as a visual art, first and foremost. Popular song has been essential to French cinema throughout its history, as Phil Powrie argues but it has drawn relatively little scholarly attention. She is the author of Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film, 2004) “This book takes on an exciting project, approaching the history of French cinema from the vantage point of its engagement with popular music. ![]() Moving across the boundaries between “high” and “low” film art, between composed scores and pre-existing music, and between French and English songs, Powrie generates new historical knowledge and creates a stimulating new theoretical concept, the “crystal-song”.” (Kelley Conway, Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. ![]() “Powrie’s study of song in French cinema since the 1980s is full of compelling insights into the relationships between song and narrative, sounds and images, and genre and gender. ![]()
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