Music in French cinema

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Notes

1. The most prominent amongst these are Flinn 1992; Kalinak 1992; Brown 1994; Smith 1998; Buhler, Flinn, and Neumeyer 2000; Donnelly 2001; Kassabian 2001; Wojcik and Knight 2001; Cooke 2008, 2010.

2. Jousse and Saada 1995; Mouëllic 2000, 2003; Masson and Mouëllic 2003; Berthomieu 2004; Abhervé, Binh, and Moure 2014.

3. See the books listed in the references: Chion 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003. For translations into English by Claudia Gorbman see Chion (1994, 1999).

4. This study focuses on a number of case studies of contemporary films, exploring the combination of Hollywood-style symphonic music with a more ‘impressionistic’ French style. These are 8 femmes (2002), Sur mes lèvres/Read My Lips (2001), Nid de guèpes/The Nest (2002), Confidences trop intimes/Intimate Strangers (2004), Swimming Pool (2003), De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté/The Beat that My Heart Skipped (2005), L’Enfer/Hell (2005) and Angel (2007).