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The Western Frontier and American Pulp in la Zone: Marcel Carné's Terrain vague (1960) as Proto-Banl...

The Western Frontier and American Pulp in la Zone: Marcel Carné's Terrain vague (1960) as Proto-Banl...

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The Western Frontier and American Pulp in la Zone: Marcel Carné's Terrain vague (1960) as Proto-Banlieue Film

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The Western Frontier and American Pulp in la Zone: Marcel Carné's Terrain vague (1960) as Proto-Banlieue Film

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Austin: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan Library)

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Cinema journal, 2020-10, Vol.60 (1), p.111-132

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English

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Austin: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan Library)

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This article examines Marcel Carné's film Terrain vague (Wasteland, 1960) as a precursor to post-1980 banlieue (disadvantaged suburbs) genre films due to its representation of the transcultural and postcolonial dimensions of this marginalized space. Carné's critically disparaged film was produced when US cultural imperialism and the Algerian War of...

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The Western Frontier and American Pulp in la Zone: Marcel Carné's Terrain vague (1960) as Proto-Banlieue Film

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2704059546

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2704059546

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2578-4900

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