French National CinemaThis revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as Amelie and Belleville Rendez-vous. Brought wholly up to date to include political and social developments in French cinema in the 1990s, its fresh approach and groundbreaking new writing on the subject offers a much further understanding of French cinema and its relationship with the French national identity. New subjects covered include:
Ideal for all students of cinema, film studies and film history, this book traces the eco-history of the French film and its key figures and movements, and it places them in their wider political and cultural context. |
Contents
DEFINING THE NATIONAL OF A COUNTRYS CINEMATOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION | 1 |
1 A BRIEF ECOHISTORY OF FRANCES CINEMA INDUSTRY 19852004 | 17 |
FRENCH CINEMAS CLASSICAL AGE 18951929 | 76 |
FRENCH CINEMAS AGE OF MODERNISM 193058 | 123 |
FRENCH CINEMAS AGE OF THE POSTMODERN PART I195891 | 203 |
FRENCH CINEMAS AGE OF THE POSTMODERN PART II 19922004 | 293 |
CONCLUSION | 328 |
NOTES | 332 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 347 |
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