French cinema : from its beginnings to the present /
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| Author / Creator: | Fournier-Lanzoni, Rémi, author. |
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2015. ©2015 |
| Description: | xvii, 612 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10398232 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. The Invention of Motion Pictures and the Silent Era of Film
- France at the turn of the twentieth century
- The invention of the Cinématographe
- Georges Méliès and the adventure of the film studio
- Growth of a national cinema
- The invention of genres
- Avant-garde cinema, French impressionism, and Surrealism
- 2. The Golden Age of French Cinema
- The style of the 1930s
- The "Talkies"
- French cinema and economic recession
- Verbal cinema or filmed language?
- Beyond filmed theater: Toward poetic realism
- Artists and masters of poetic realism
- Cinematography and the poetics of images
- 3. French Cinema of the Occupation
- France in 1940
- The exodus of French cinema celebrities
- French cinema and Vichy
- Propaganda and censorship: The case of Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Working conditions under the occupation
- Resistance and liberation
- 4. The Postwar Era
- The Fourth Republic and postwar France
- The Blum-Byrnes agreements
- The prestige of French cinema or cinema of prestige?
- A certain Tradition de qualityé
- Comedy à la Française
- Film noir or film d'ambiance
- Toward a new cinema
- 5. The Years of the French New Wave
- France during and after the events of 1958
- The signs of change
- Les cahiers du cinéma and the auteur theory
- The emergence of the New Wave
- The return of commercial movie successes
- 6. French Cinema of the 1970s
- May '68 and after: A new cultural era
- Economic assessment of French cinema
- The "Scandal" of the Cinémathèque Française
- Political cinema as a new genre
- The last days of the French polar
- The humanists' school
- The storytellers
- 7. The Cinema of the 1980s
- France in the 1980s
- French cinema of the 1980s: Over one thousand films produced
- Transformations in the French film industry
- A new partner: Television
- The old school of filmmakers
- The super productions
- New directors for a new generation
- The rebirth of popular comedies
- 8. French Cinema in the Fin de Siecle
- French society in the 1990s
- The improving health of French cinema
- A unique financial-aid system
- French television
- French cinema abroad
- New artists, new creators
- The epics
- Period dramas
- The return of comedies at the box office
- The new French cinema-le jeunc cinéma
- The digital revolution and the high-definition system: Pitof
- 9. The New Millennium
- France in the new millennium
- French film industry and the digital era
- The new generation of women filmmakers
- A national recognition for beur cinema
- French cinema and international stardom: The French touch of Intouchables, Bienvenue chez les ch'tis and The Artist
- Abbreviations
- Appendix
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
