French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present

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A&C Black, 31 mar 2004 - 496 pagine
To 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 influence, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most beloved films.

In French Cinema, he focuses his lens on outstanding examples from each era to give the cineaste in each of us new insight into our own favorites. Directors such as Robert Bresson, Marcel Carné, Claude Chabrol, René Clair, Jean Cocteau, Abel Gance, Louis Malle, Jean Renoir, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Tati, and François Truffaut are covered in depth, as are stars such as Arletty, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Maurice Chevalier, Catherine Deneuve, Max Linder, Jean Marais, Yves Montand, Jeanne Moreau, and Simone Signoret.

French Cinema is enhanced by over 100 film stills as well as rare, archival photographs of the personalities who created and informed this superb national tradition.
 

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INTRODUCTION
17
FRENCH CINEMA OF
18
THE INVENTION OF MOTION
23
THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRENCH
53
French Cinema and Vichy III
111
Marcel Carné
124
Resistance and Liberation
136
THE POSTWAR ERA
143
JeanPaul Belmondo Michel and Jean Seberg Patricia
233
FRENCH CINEMA OF THE 1970s
245
Yves Montand the deputy in CostaGavrass Z 1969
255
Jean Gabin Vittorio Malanese Alain Delon Roger
268
François Truffaut and JeanPierre Léaud
283
THE CINEMA OF THE 1980s
298
THE LAST DECADE AND BEYOND
349
ABBREVIATIONS
419

Philippe Leroy Manu Borelli and Jean Keraudy Roland
191
THE YEARS OF THE FRENCH
195
Stéphane Audran Frédérique and Jacqueline Sassard
219

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Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, author of French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, also published by Continuum International, teaches Italian at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

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