This collection explores the intricate relationship between song and cinema, delving into various themes and styles within French musical films. It opens with an introduction and traces the evolution of song in film, examining aesthetic experimentation in recent French musicals. Contributions analyze the influences in the sung scene of "Le Tourbillon" from Truffaut's "Jules et Jim," and the musical reprises of Jacques Demy's songs in French cinema. The aesthetic and narrative functions of intermedial citations, such as Édith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien," are also discussed. The role of diegetic songs in films like "Les nuits fauves" is examined, alongside themes of enchantment and fantasy in Nicolas Engel's work. The concept of "becoming-song" in the Nouvelle Vague and its evolution in the late 2000s is explored, alongside the intersection of song, politics, and sexuality in francophone cinema. The collection also addresses postcolonial masculinities in Demy's films and presents case studies on musical fantasy in unconventional settings and the transcendent power of cinema in relation to artists and their songs, culminating in an analysis of Claude Lelouch's contribution to film music.
