Genre Myth And Convention In The French Cinema 1929 1939

Author : C. G. Crisp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215161
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 written by C. G. Crisp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work identifies patterns in the fields of character, narrative, and setting in the French cinema of the early sound period.

Author : Colin Crisp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017033
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Cinema—A Critical Filmography written by Colin Crisp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All entries contain a list of cast members and characters, production details, an overview of the film's cultural and historical significance, and a critical summary of the film's plot and narrative structure. Each volume includes an appendix listing rewards earned and an extensive reference list for further reading and research. A third volume, covering the period 1958–1974, is forthcoming.

Author : Margaret C. Flinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781380333
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929-1939 written by Margaret C. Flinn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a vital new reading of documentary and realist fiction film of the French 1930s that focuses on how these genres interlock their representations of urban spaces and places.

Author : Colin Crisp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017025
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Cinema—A Critical Filmography written by Colin Crisp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All entries contain a list of cast members and characters, production details, an overview of the film's cultural and historical significance, and a critical summary of the film's plot and narrative structure. Each volume includes an appendix listing rewards earned and an extensive reference list for further reading and research. A third volume, covering the period 1958–1974, is forthcoming.

Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349929093
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Cinema Book written by Michael Temple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.

Author : Dayna Oscherwitz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087038X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of French Cinema written by Dayna Oscherwitz and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumi_re in 1895 with the invention of the cinZmatographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinZmatographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumi_re's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumi_re factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy, and Charles PathZ. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors_Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Fran_ois Truffaut, and Louis Malle_and actors_Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, GZrard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The A to Z of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors, directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film, movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and the expert alike.

Author : Ben McCann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725696
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Jour se Lève written by Ben McCann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Jour se leve (1939) directed by Marcel Carne, is widely recognised as the classic French Poetic Realist film. Told in flashback, it recounts the story of a man who has committed a murder, and who awaits his fate as the police close in. Carne shuttles between different registers, tones and textures throughout, marshalling the studio's resources to create striking pictorial compositions. The film also contains the great French star Jean Gabin's most iconic performance as Francois, marooned at the top of his apartment building. Ben McCann's perceptive and lively book traces the evolution of Le Jour se leve and situates it in a very specific historical moment. He also underlines the importance of actors Jules Berry and Arletty, production designer Alexandre Trauner, writer Jacques Prevert and cinematographer Curt Courant in establishing the film's tone, mood and visual style. He charts the national and international reception of the film, uncovering a work that deeply divided critics at a time of national crisis. He also reveals Le Jour se leve to be a key transitional work between European and American noir and compares it with the 1947 Hollywood remake. Highlighting its combination of the 'poetic' and the 'realist' this book finally stresses how Le Jour se leve represents the very best of pre-war French studio filmmaking.

Author : Tom Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317527054
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacle in "Classical" Cinemas written by Tom Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in ‘Classical’ Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s brings a fresh perspective on the role of the spectacular in classical sound cinema by focusing on one decade of cinema (the 1930s), in two ‘modes’ of filmmaking (musical and historical films), and in two national cinemas (the US and France). This not only brings to light the special rhetorical and affective possibilities offered by spectacular images but refines our understanding of what ‘classical’ cinema is and was.

Author : Dudley Andrew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198718616
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Cinema: a Very Short Introduction written by Dudley Andrew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often claimed that the French invented cinema, and although their prominence may have been supplanted by Hollywood today, the French film industry remains both prolific and highly lauded. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Andrew teases out the distinguishing themes, to bring the defining features of French cinema to light.

Author : Jonathan Driskell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735667
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Screen Goddess written by Jonathan Driskell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years before Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve rose to fame, the French cinema produced a host of glamorous female stars designed to rival their Hollywood counterparts. Bathed in soft light, discussed adoringly in fan magazines and shown wearing the latest fashions, these 'cinematic stars' emerged in opposition to France's traditional stage-based stardom, while remaining, through the roles they played and the looks they sported, a distinctly French phenomenon. The French Screen Goddess examines how these stars influenced the narratives and look of their films, contributed to defining the period's new, emancipated femininity -, the 'modern woman' -, and related to the decade's politics, particularly the Popular Front of the mid-1930s. The book focuses on the three most important examples of this type of stardom, Annabella, Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan, while also considering many other key stars, such as Arletty, Viviane Romance and Jean Gabin. Previously neglected films are considered and true classics of French cinema re-examined, with Rene Clair's Quatorze juillet, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera, and Marcel Carne's Le Quai des brumes and Hotel du Nord foremost among these.