while the only subject heading that is here is "Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Motion Picture), there are tons of articles and sources in the book's references in the back. I've located a number of new articles that I've ordered on the library website (so hopefully I will have them in 1-2 days). I found several articles in french too which i will read (including a very famous and noted in several sources thus far critique called "amelie pas jolie".
Once i get them i will created the mla citation
Also, the introduction only served as a preface to the book. discussing the progression throughout the chapters and also about amelie's success in the box office and globally, as well as briefly mentioning certain controversies (which i have found several articles that support and are against these claims)
Le Petisme. Scatton-Tessier
Petisme is defined as "a reaction to the national concern about everything that is gigantic...globalization, crime...it bears homage to the little things. it prioritizes the local, the immediate". This petisme is the root of the joy in the film. He also compares how Amélie is similar to several other french films (that are usually seen as morbid and onerous, quite unlike one's initial response to amelie). His overriding argument stems from the increasing isolation/individualistic nature of french society as urbanization continues to flourish. He talks about the dichotomy between this happy exterior that is "tainted with loneliness and unhappiness". Another motif throughout the film is the differences between mobility and immobility, both physical and cinematographic. Through re-activation, re-newel, and re-creation "Amelie propels them backwards, providing a necessary distance for them". The combination of ordinary-ness and fantastical ideas, happiness and lonliness and the overwhelming vulnerability make this film more than just a simple love story in the beauty paris.
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Yikes! Don't forget page number for your summary, paraphrases, and quotations.
And this does sound like a very useful source, setting up the historical context in which the film appears as well as a way to define it within a genre of concern.
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