Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Cinema's Conversion to Sound

Author: Charles O’Brien

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2005-01-18

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780253217202

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A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.

Oedipus at Thebes
Oedipus at Thebes

Author: Bernard Knox

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780300074239

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Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.

French National Cinema
French National Cinema

Author: Susan Hayward

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0415307821

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This 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.

Esther Happy
Esther Happy

Author: Honoré de Balzac

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-10

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13:

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"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...

La Horda
La Horda

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-10-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781539417385

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La Horda

The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960

Author: C. G. Crisp

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 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.

Grand Design
Grand Design

Author: Tino Balio

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780520203341

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The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.