French National Cinema (National Cinemas)

✍ Scribed by Susan Hayward

Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 354
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the avant garde' cinema that contests it.Susan Hayward argues that writing on French national cinema has tended to focus on eithergreat' film-makers or on specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an `ecohistory' of the French film industry, she then traces the various movements in French cinema and the directors associated with them, including the avant-garde, Poetic-Realist, New Wave and today's postmodern cinema. Her analysis includes, amongst other considerations, the social and political concerns these cinemas reflect.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 A brief ecohistory of France’s cinema industry 1895 1992......Page 37
2 Magical moments of musical silence......Page 87
3 From clarity to obscurity......Page 139
4 From ideology to narcissism French cinema’s age of the postmodern 1958 91......Page 229
Conclusion......Page 331
Select Bibliography......Page 335
Index......Page 344

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