The Social Architecture Of French Cinema

Author : Margaret C. Flinn
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781385971
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Architecture of French Cinema written by Margaret C. Flinn and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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 : Tim Bergfelder
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053569804
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination written by Tim Bergfelder and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers ʼ drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book offers a new insight into the development and significance of trans-national artistic collaboration during this period. European cinema from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is famous for its attention to detail in terms of set design and visual effect. Focusing on developments in Britain, France, and Germany, Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema provides a comprehensive analysis of the practices, styles, and function of cinematic production design during this period, and its influence on subsequent filmmaking patterns."--Publisher description.

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 : 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 : Scott MacKenzie
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377478
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures written by Scott MacKenzie and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501329774
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Film Musical written by Phil Powrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical. The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.

Author : Audrey Evrard
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786838443
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics written by Audrey Evrard and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshing contribution to existing scholarship in English on contemporary French documentary cinema. Combines textured film analyses with rich contextual and conceptual readings. Makes a strong case for long-form documentary cinema’s critical and political force as a "praxis of precarious sociality". Connects debates on documentary and film ethics with sociological, philosophical and political conceptions of precarity, precariousness and vulnerability.

Author : Elizabeth Grottle Strebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Social Cinema of the Nineteen Thirties written by Elizabeth Grottle Strebel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079359
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ciné Goes to Town written by Richard Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From questions surrounding the representation of the body and sexual difference to presentations of social class, his book breaks new ground as a comprehensive social history of early French film.

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415307833
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French National Cinema written by Susan Hayward and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.