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Author: Mani Sharpe
Publisher: Traditions in World Cinema
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474414227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence
Author: Dayna Oscherwitz
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Hayward
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780415307833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
Author: Naomi Greene
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999-04-18
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0691004757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. Observing that the sense of grandeur and destiny that once shaped French identity has eroded under the weight of recent history, Greene examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s, the Vichy era, decolonization, the collapse of ideologies. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of films and directors, she shows how postwar films have reflected contemporary concerns even as they have created images and myths that have helped determine the contours of French memory. This study of the intricate links between French history, memory, and cinema begins by examining the long shadow cast by the Vichy past, and shifting political and historical perspectives toward the nation's more distant past, which also emerged in these years. Finally, the mood of nostalgia and melancholy that appears to haunt contemporary France is analyzed in the context of films about the nation's imperial past as well as those that hark back to a "golden age," a remembered paradis perdu, of French cinema itself.
Author: Michael Charlie Michael
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-07-17
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1474424252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe digitised spectacles conjured by a word like 'blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular culture. While the Gallic 'cultural exception' remains a forceful current to this day, this book shows how the onslaught of Hollywood mega-franchises and new media platforms since the 1980s has also provoked an overtly commercialised response from French producers eager to redefine the stakes and scope of their own traditions. From English-language action vehicles like Valrian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) to revisionist historical films like Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2011) and crowd-pleasing comedies like Intouchables (Toldano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated 'local blockbusters' from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a forceful counter-history. Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of a recent grouping of popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make - or to see - a 'French' film today.
Author: Ian Aitken
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474407218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing together a range of international scholars, the book sheds new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in the colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrate the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region.
Author: Will Higbee
Publisher: Traditions in World Cinema Eup
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780748697373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comparative analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African aemigrae cinema in France.
Author: Guy Austin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1526162911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of French cinema with analyses of over 120 movies, from Les Valseuses to Caché. Reflecting the diversity of French film production since the New Wave, this clear and perceptive study includes chapters on the heritage film, the thriller and the war movie, alongside the 'cinéma du look', representations of sexuality, comedies, the work of women film makers and le jeune cinéma. Each chapter introduces the public reception and critical debates surrounding a given genre, interwoven with detailed accounts of relevant films. Confirmed as a major contribution to both Film Studies and French Studies, this book is a fascinating volume for students and fans of French film alike.
Author: Michael Temple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1349929093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.
Author: Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1501303090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influences, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, the rebirth of the industry in the 1990s with the exception culturelle, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most beloved films. Building upon his 2004 best-selling edition, the second edition of French Cinema maintains the chronological analysis, factual reliability, ease of use, and accessible prose, while at once concentrating more on the current generation of female directors, mainstream productions such as The Artist and The Intouchables, and the emergence of minority filmmakers (Beur cinema).
