JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

1. Richard Porton and Lee Ellickson, “Alienated Labor: An Interview with Laurent Cantet,” Cineaste, 27.2 (2002): 26. [return to text]

2. Martin O’Shaugnessy, The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film Since 1995, Berghahn Books, 2007; Will Higbee “ ‘Elle est ou, ta place?’ The Social-Realist Melodramas of Laurent Cantet: Ressources humanies (2000) and Emploi du temps (2001),” French Cultural Studies, 15.3(2004): 235-250.

3. O’Shaugnessy, The New Face of Political Cinema, 1.

4. Higbee, “The Social-Realist Melodramas of Laurent Cantet”: 238-240.

5. Ginette Vincendeau,”White Collar Blues, Sight and Sound 12:4(April 2002): 30-32; Vincendeau, “The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival: ‘The Class’: Interview,” Sight and Sound,18:11 (Nov 2008): 30-31.

6. Vincendeau, “White Collar Blues.”

7. O’Shaugnessy, The New Face of Political Cinema, 3.

8. Higbee, “The Social-Realist Melodramas of Laurent Cantet,” 236.

9. Porton and Ellickson, “Alienated Labor, 27.

10. Higbee, “The Social-Realist Melodramas of Laurent Cantet,” 244.

11. Porton and Ellickson, “Alienated Labor, 26.

12. Higbee, “The Social-Realist Melodramas of Laurent Cantet,” 244.

13. In addition to Will Higbee, other scholarship on masculinity in Cantet’s first two films include: Neil Archer, “The road as the (non-)place of masculinity: L’Emplo du temps,” Studies in French Cinema 8.2 (2008): 137-148; Judith Franco, “’The More you Look, the Less you Really Know”: The Redemption of White Masculinity in Contemporary American French Cinema, Cinema Journal 47.3 (2008): 29-47; Will Higbee, “’Elle est ou, ta place?’ The Social-Realist Melodramas of Laurent Cantet: Ressources humanies (2000) and Emploi du temps (2001), French Cultural Studies, 15.3(2004): 235-250

14. Heading South, Shadow Distribution Press Kit,
http://www.shadowdistribution.com/headingsouth /downloads/HeadingSouthPresskit.pdf

15. According to the Shadow Distribution Press Kit Cantet says he also drew inspiration from two other short stories “La Maitresse du Colonel” and “L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune.” All three of these stories are in the collection La Chair du Maitre by Laferriere.

16. Dana Strand, “Etre et parler: Being and speaking French in Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive (2004) and Laurent Cantet’s Entre les murs (2008).” Studies in French Cinema 9.3 (2009): 260.

17. Vincendeau, “The Rules of the Game,” Sight and Sound 19:3 (March 2009): 34-36.

18. Vincendeau, “TheTimes BFI 52nd London Film Festival”; Manohla Dargis, “Learning to Be Future of France,” The New York Times, 26 Sept 2008.

19. Strand, “Etre et parler,” 265.

20. “James S. Williams, “Framing Exclusion: The Politics of Space in Laurent Cantet’s Entre Les Murs.” French Studies 65.1: (2011): 66.

21. Strand, “Etre et parler,” 265; Vincendeau, “Rules of the Game; Vincendeau, “TheTimes BFI 52nd London Film Festival”; Dargis, “Learning to Be Future of France.”

22. Vincendeau, “Rules of the Game.”

23. Vincendeau, “Rules of the Game.”

24. Strand, “Etre et parler,” 269.

25. Higbee 238.

26. Higbee, 239.

27. Slavoj Zizek, “Against the Populist Temptation,” Critical Inquiry, 32 (2006): 568.

28. Zizek, “Against the Populist Temptation,” 568.

29. Zizek, “Against the Populist Temptation,” 569.

30. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005): 19. [return to page 2]

31. Shelley Emling, “Reluctantly, Europeans Working Longer Hours,” Cox News Service, 10 August 2004.

32. “Thirty-five hours of misery; Labour markets in Europe.” The Economist, 17 July 2004.

33. “UN exposes gap in poverty-cutting strategies for Africa,” Agence France Press, 26 September, 2002 and UNCTAD Says Structural Adjustment Has Failed in Africa, Financial Times Information, 27 September 2002.

34. Porton and Ellickson, “Alienated Labor,” 26.

35. Richard A. Haggerty, ed. Haiti: A Country Study. (Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1989):
http://countrystudies.us/haiti/. [return to page 3]

36. Haggerty, Haiti: A Country Study,
http://countrystudies.us/haiti/62.htm.

37. Haggerty, Haiti: A Country Study,
http://countrystudies.us/haiti/45.htm.

38. U.S. Department of State, “Background Note: Haiti,”
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm.

39. Haggerty, Haiti: A Country Study,
http://countrystudies.us/haiti/44.htm.

40. Paul Farmer, The Uses of Haiti, (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2006), 97.

41. Josh DeWind, Josh and David H. Kinley III. Aiding Migration: The Impact of International Development Assistance on Haiti, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988): 60-61.

42. Farmer, 100. As of 2006 Haiti owed $1.4 billion in debt with an annual debt service of $57.4 million. Mark Schuller, “Haiti’s 200-Year Ménage-a-Trois: Globalization, the State, and Civil Society,” Caribbean Studies, 35.1 (2007): 157.

43. DeWind and Kinley, 60, 67.

44. Farmer, 99.

45. Jerry D. Rose, “How Neoliberalism Has Created the World’s Immigration Crisis,” CounterCurrents.org, 12 February 2008,
http://www.countercurrents.org/rose120208.htm. [return to page 4]

46. Angelique Vassout, “France and the ‘Heirs’ of North African Immigration,” Knowledge Must Weblog, 22 May 2010,
http://blog.knowledge-must.com/archives/24-France
-and-the-Heirs-of-North-African-Immigration.html.