The Cinema of France

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Phil Powrie
Wallflower Press, 2006 - 283 pages
An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France provides an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).
 

Table des matières

NAPOLÉON Maureen Turim
18
LE CRIME DE MONSIEUR LANGE THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE Alan Williams
31
LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS CHILDREN OF PARADISE Ben McCann
51
JeanLouis Pautrot
68
08
81
10
101
Filmography
255
Index
277
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Page v - She has published over fifty essays in anthologies and journals on a wide range of theoretical, historical and aesthetic issues in cinema and video, art, cultural studies, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, and comparative literature.
Page ii - ... Continuity and Difference (editor, Oxford University Press, 1999), Jean-Jacques Beineix (Manchester University Press, 2001), French Cinema: An Introduction (coauthored with Keith Reader, Arnold, 2002), and The Cinema of France (editor, Wallflower Press, 2006). He is the co-editor of several anthologies: The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema (Wallflower Press, 2004), Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film (Ashgate, 2005), Composing for the Screen in...

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Phil Powrie is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published widely on French film, including French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity; Contemporary French Cinema: Continuity and Difference; and French Cinema: A Student's Guide.

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