Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol
Title Marcel Pagnol PDF eBook
Author Brett Bowles
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 278
Release 2019-01-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1526141647

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Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career, the first ever published in English, highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context. In addition to reassessing the converted playwright’s controversial prioritisation of speech over image, the book juxtaposes Pagnol’s sunny rural melodramas with the dark, urban variety of poetic realism practised by influential peers such as Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné. In his penchant for outdoor location shooting and ethnographic authenticity, as well as his stubborn attachment to independent, artisanal production values, Pagnol served as a precursor to the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism, inspiring the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini.

The Time of Secrets

The Time of Secrets
Title The Time of Secrets PDF eBook
Author Marcel Pagnol
Publisher
Pages 232
Release 1962
Genre Aubagne (France)
ISBN

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Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette
Title Jean de Florette PDF eBook
Author Marcel Pagnol
Publisher MacMillan
Pages 440
Release 1988
Genre Provence (France)
ISBN 9780330307796

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Tells the story of Jean de Florette, a 35-year-old, city-bred, hunchbacked idealist, his wife, Aimee, and his daughter, Manon. In the second novel, Manon seeks revenge for her father's death, and it is she who brings the wheel full circle in a final dramatic retribution in the town square.

My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle

My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle
Title My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle PDF eBook
Author Marcel Pagnol
Publisher MacMillan
Pages 352
Release 1991-09-01
Genre
ISBN 9780330321907

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With warmth, lucidity and good humour, Pagnol, a boy from the city, recounts the glorious summer days he spent exploring the sun-baked Provençal countryside. He vividly captures the atmosphere of a childhood filled with the simple pleasures: a meal, a joke, an outing shared with his close-knit and loving family. These heart-warming stories remind us of how children can invest the smallest event or statement with incredible significance, how mysterious the workings of the adult world can seem to them and how painful the learning process can often prove. However, Pagnol’s writing is filled with enormous optimism and delight. And his triumph in these classic memoirs is to have created that rare thing, a work suffused with joy. ‘Pagnol’s place in the history of French culture is secure. The Prousts and Sartres may be admired, but Pagnol is loved’ Times Literary Supplement

Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol
Title Marcel Pagnol PDF eBook
Author Brett Bowles
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 361
Release 2021-06-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1526162830

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Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career, now available in paperback, highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context. In addition to reassessing the converted playwright’s controversial prioritisation of speech over image, the book juxtaposes Pagnol’s sunny rural melodramas with the dark, urban variety of poetic realism practised by influential peers such as Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné. In his penchant for outdoor location shooting and ethnographic authenticity, as well as his stubborn attachment to independent, artisanal production values, Pagnol served as a precursor to the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism, inspiring the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini.

Jean de Florette [and] Manon Des Sources

Jean de Florette [and] Manon Des Sources
Title Jean de Florette [and] Manon Des Sources PDF eBook
Author Marcel Pagnol
Publisher Prion (GB)
Pages 440
Release 2004
Genre France
ISBN 9781853755293

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Pagnol's tragedy explores themes of sacrifice, selfishness and revenge in a Provencal village.

The Time of Love

The Time of Love
Title The Time of Love PDF eBook
Author Marcel Pagnol
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
Pages 232
Release 1979
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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