All Outputs (2)

Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F. (2015). Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001). French Cultural Studies, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815597426

This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of political correctness have tended to overlook the allegorical significance of its depiction of a middle-aged executive forced to pretend to be gay, sim... Read More about Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001).

“Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F. (2015). “Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction. Modern and Contemporary France, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2015.1054372

This article analyses the representation of female executives in a corpus of French films and novels produced from 2000 on. The corpus includes a mixture of male and female directors and novelists, all of whom adopt broadly centre-left or left-wing p... Read More about “Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction.