Susan Hayward

French National Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780415307826
• ISBN-10: 0415307821
• Artikelnr.: 21741474

Autorenporträt

Susan Hayward is Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on French film and gender and sexuality in film. Her most recent publication is Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (Continuum, 2003)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Defining the 'National' of a Country's Cinematographic
Production  1. A Brief Ecohistory of France's Cinema Industry 1895-2003  2.
Magical Moments of Musical Silence: French Cinema's Classical Age
1895-1929  3. From Clarity to Obscurity: French Cinema's Age of Modernism
1930-1958  4. From Ideology to Narcissism: French Cinema's Age of the
Postmodern 1958-1991  5. Towards a Multiplicity of Voices: French Cinema's
Age of the Postmodern, Part Two 1992-2004

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Introduction: Defining the 'National' of a Country's Cinematographic Production 1. A Brief Ecohistory of France's Cinema Industry 1895-2003 2. Magical Moments of Musical Silence: French Cinema's Classical Age 1895-1929 3. From Clarity to Obscurity: French Cinema's Age of Modernism 1930-1958 4. From Ideology to Narcissism: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern 1958-1991 5. Towards a Multiplicity of Voices: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern, Part Two 1992-2004

Rezensionen

'This factual and analytical book offer[s] the reader an encompassing and informative introduction to a "global picture" of French cinema.' - Scope

'This is an ambitious and useful text ... this is a worthy and in many ways a very helpful edition of a text that has played an important role in encouraging new ways of thinking about French film history.' - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'This factual and analytical book offer[s] the reader an encompassing and informative introduction to a "global picture" of French cinema.' - Scope

'This is an ambitious and useful text ... this is a worthy and in many ways a very helpful edition of a text that has played an important role in encouraging new ways of thinking about French film history.' - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television