The Anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French film and fiction
(2022)
Journal Article
Lane, J. (2023). The Anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French film and fiction. French Cultural Studies, 34(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558221144369
This article begins with the 2009 documentary, La Dépossession, by filmmaker Jean-Robert Viallet, suggesting that La Défense is depicted as an anti-city. It seeks to anatomise this trope and chronotope, examining the manner in which a range of recent... Read More about The Anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French film and fiction.