The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960

The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
Title The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960 PDF eBook
Author C. G. Crisp
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 522
Release 1993
Genre Motion pictures
ISBN 9780253315502

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Colin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.

Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939

Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939
Title Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 PDF eBook
Author C. G. Crisp
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 492
Release 2002
Genre Film Genres
ISBN 9780253215161

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This work identifies patterns in the fields of character, narrative, and setting in the French cinema of the early sound period.

French Cinema—A Critical Filmography

French Cinema—A Critical Filmography
Title French Cinema—A Critical Filmography PDF eBook
Author Colin Crisp
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 362
Release 2015-08-10
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0253017025

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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.

The Classical Hollywood Cinema

The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Title The Classical Hollywood Cinema PDF eBook
Author David Bordwell
Publisher Routledge
Pages 1338
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1134988087

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'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer 'At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get for a very long time.' Paul Kerr City Limits 'Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.' Nigel Andrews Financial Times Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations. Despite differences of director, genre or studio, most Hollywood films operate within a set of shared assumptions about how a film should look and sound. Such assumptions are neither natural nor inevitable; but because classical-style films have been the type most widely seen, they have come to be accepted as the 'norm' of film-making and viewing. The authors show how these classical conventions were formulated and standardized, and how they responded to the arrival of sound, colour, widescreen ratios and stereophonic sound. They argue that each new technological development has served a function within an existing narrational system. The authors also examine how the Hollywood cinema standardized the film-making process itself. They describe how, over the course of its history, Hollywood developed distinct modes of production in a constant search for maximum efficiency, predictability and novelty. Set apart by its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this book is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s. Now available in paperback, it is a 'must' for film students, lecturers and all those seriously interested in the development of the film industry.

French Cinema

French Cinema
Title French Cinema PDF eBook
Author R�mi Fournier Lanzoni
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 633
Release 2015-10-22
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1501303074

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"An all-encompassing history of French motion pictures and cinematographic trends chronologically from 1895 to the present"--

Spectacle in Classical Cinemas

Spectacle in Classical Cinemas
Title Spectacle in Classical Cinemas PDF eBook
Author Tom Brown
Publisher Routledge
Pages 292
Release 2015-08-11
Genre History
ISBN 1317527054

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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.

French Film

French Film
Title French Film PDF eBook
Author Susan Hayward
Publisher Routledge
Pages 372
Release 2014-04-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136214860

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The second edition of this innovative textbook brings together leading scholars to provide detailed analyses of twenty-two key films within the canon of French cinema, from the 1920s to the 1990s. Films discussed include: * masterpieces such as Renoir's La Bete Humaine and Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis * popular classics such as Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and Ma Nuit chez Maud * landmarks of the New Wave such as Les 400 Coups and A bout de souffle * important films of the 1990s such as Nikita and La Haine The films are considered in relation to such issues as the history of French cinema, the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, the relationship with Hollywood cinema, gender politics, authorship and genre. Each article is accompanied with a guide to further reading and a filmography of the director, and the new edition also includes a fully revised introduction and a bibliography on French cinema.