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French Cinema » (1st Edition)
Authors: Remi Fournier Lanzoni
ISBN-13: 9780826416001, ISBN-10: 0826416004
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Remi Fournier Lanzoni
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | 11 | |
| Introduction | 17 | |
| Chapter 1 | The Invention of Motion Pictures and the Silent Era of Film | 23 |
| France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | 23 | |
| The Invention of the Cinematographe | 25 | |
| Georges Melies and the Adventure of the Film Studio | 32 | |
| Growth of a National Cinema: Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont | 36 | |
| The Invention of Genres: Louis Feuillade and Max Linder | 39 | |
| Avant-garde Cinema, French Impressionism, and Surrealism: Louis Delluc, Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Luis Bunuel, and Rene Clair | 45 | |
| Chapter 2 | The Golden Age of French Cinema | 53 |
| The Style of the 1930s | 53 | |
| The "Talkies" | 55 | |
| French Cinema and Economic Recession | 62 | |
| Verbal Cinema or Filmed Language? Marcel Pagnol | 67 | |
| Beyond Filmed Theater: Toward Poetic Realism | 73 | |
| Artists and Masters of Poetic Realism: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir, and Jean Vigo | 75 | |
| Cinematography and the Poetics of Images | 100 | |
| Chapter 3 | French Cinema of the Occupation | 103 |
| France in 1940 | 104 | |
| The Exodus of French Cinema Celebrities | 106 | |
| French Cinema and Vichy | 111 | |
| Propaganda and Censorship: The Case of Henri-Georges Clouzot | 115 | |
| Working Conditions under the Occupation: Marcel Carne | 124 | |
| Resistance and Liberation | 136 | |
| Chapter 4 | The Postwar Era | 143 |
| The Fourth Republic and Postwar France | 144 | |
| The Blum-Byrnes Agreements | 148 | |
| The Prestige of French Cinema or Cinema of Prestige? Jean Cocteau | 150 | |
| A Certain Tradition de Qualite | 157 | |
| Comedy a la francaise: Claude Autant-Lara | 167 | |
| Film Noir or film d'ambiance: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker, and Rene Clement | 170 | |
| Toward a New Cinema: Robert Bresson, Jacques Becker, and Rene Clement | 183 | |
| Chapter 5 | The Years of the French New Wave | 195 |
| France during and after the Events of 1958 | 196 | |
| The Signs of Change: Louis Malle | 201 | |
| Les cahiers du cinema and the Auteur Theory | 206 | |
| The Emergence of the New Wave: Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, and Agnes Varda | 210 | |
| The Return of Commercial Movie Successes | 239 | |
| Chapter 6 | French Cinema of the 1970s | 245 |
| May '68: A New Cultural Era | 246 | |
| Economic Assessment of French Cinema | 249 | |
| The "Scandal" of the Cinematheque Francaise | 252 | |
| Political Cinema as a New Genre: Louis Malle, Joseph Losey, and Costa-Gavras | 253 | |
| The Last Days of the French Polar: Jean-Pierre Melville and Henri Verneuil | 262 | |
| The Humanists' School: Claude Sautet, Francois Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer | 270 | |
| The Storytellers: Bertrand Blier and Bertrand Tavernier | 286 | |
| Chapter 7 | The Cinema of the 1980s | 298 |
| France in the 1980s | 299 | |
| French Cinema of the 1980s: Over One Thousand Films Produced | 304 | |
| Transformations in the French Film Industry | 306 | |
| A New Partner: Television | 310 | |
| The Old School of Filmmakers: Francois Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier, Bertrand Blier, and Maurice Pialat | 313 | |
| The Super Productions: Claude Berri and Jean-Jacques Annaud | 326 | |
| New Directors for a New Generation: Jean-Jacques Beineix and Luc Besson | 338 | |
| The Rebirth of Popular Comedies: Coline Serreau and Claude Zidi | 346 | |
| Chapter 8 | The Last Decade and Beyond | 349 |
| French Society in the 1990s | 350 | |
| The Improving Health of French Cinema | 351 | |
| A Unique Financial-Aid System | 354 | |
| French Television | 358 | |
| French Cinema Abroad | 361 | |
| New Artists, New Creators: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro | 365 | |
| The Epics: Regis Wargnier and Claude Berri | 376 | |
| Period Dramas: Patrice Chereau, Alain Corneau, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and Patrice Leconte | 382 | |
| The Return of Comedies at the Box Office: Jean-Marie Poire and Francis Veber | 400 | |
| The New French Cinema--Le Jeune Cinema: Mathieu Kassovitz and Eric Zonca | 405 | |
| The Digital Revolution and the High-Definition System: Pitof | 414 | |
| Abbreviations | 419 | |
| Appendix | 421 | |
| Notes | 434 | |
| Select Bibliography | 468 | |
| Index | 475 |
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