Introduction

This book demonstrates the positive impact of using film and audiovisual material in the language classroom. The chapters are evidence-based and address different levels and contexts of learning around the world. They demonstrate the benefits of using moving images and films to develop intercultural awareness and promote multilingualism, and suggest Audiovisual Translation (AVT) activities and projects to enhance language learning. The book will be a valuable continuing professional development resource for language teachers and those involved in curriculum development, as well as bringing the latest research, theory and pedagogical techniques to teacher training courses

Money for writing: Screenplay development and screenwriters earnings in French cinema

The funds allocated to developing screenplays currently constitute on average 2 to 3% of the overall budget of a film in France. Producers are more than ever dependent on presenting attractive draft screenplays to find their financial partners. As a result, screenwriters undoubtedly are active economic partners of production planning, but they do not seem to receive much professional recognition for this vital role. Moreover, their earnings often fail to reflect the amount of work produced and do not reward adequately the risks taken, including the possibility that production could stop after the screenplay is written. This article investigates the place of screenplay development within the economics of French cinema. Using recently published official reports and interviews, the author identifies different types of screenwriters – freestanding screenwriters, writing teams and screenwriters co-writing with the director – and addresses their working conditions. She surveys some of the contract modalities for the remuneration of professional screenwriters. Finally, she reviews the proposals made by different professional bodies to improve the remuneration of screenwriters and reform the financing of screenwriting

L’évolution du documentaire citoyen engagé en France : « Sans papiers », SDF et « indignés »

Au-delà de la figure du cinéaste engagé qui interpelle le public par son ouvre, cet ouvrage s;intéresse à la culture de l'engagement qui se déploie dans un espace extra-filmique

The ‘Cinéma du milieu’ is falling down: new challenges for auteur and independent French cinema in the 2000s

Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley received five Césars in 2007. This gave her the opportunity of denouncing the ‘recent fracture within the history of French cinema’, making it difficult for some ‘auteurs-directors’ to find the funding for films which are not lavish commercial productions or shoe-string budgets – the ‘films du milieu’ (mid-budget, artistically ambitious, independent films). This paper discusses the impact of Ferran's intervention and of the resulting report of the Club des 13, Le Milieu n'est plus un pont mais une faille, published in 2008. Using Lady Chatterley (Ferran, 2006), Un secret/A Secret (Miller, 2007) and La Graine et le Mulet/Couscous (Kechiche, 2007), it maps out some issues raised by the Club des 13, and addresses some of their proposals