The Flâneuse in Film: Female Flânerie in the French New Wave and Contemporary Indie Cinema

Authors

Emily Corwin, The College of Wooster

Abstract

This Independent Study examines the ways in which directors of the French New Wave and contemporary "indie" cinema use the figure of the flâneuse and the concept of flânerie in their respective films. Specifically analyzing Agnès Varda's Cléo de 5 Ã 7 (1962), Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), and Cate Shortland's Somersault (2004), this project evaluates themes of female image, identity, movement, and spectatorship that emerge in these “flâneuristic” films.

Advisor

Shostak, Debra

Department

English

Recommended Citation

Corwin, Emily, "The Flâneuse in Film: Female Flânerie in the French New Wave and Contemporary Indie Cinema" (2013). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 443.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/443

Disciplines

Film and Media Studies | French and Francophone Language and Literature | Visual Studies

Publication Date

2013

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis