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Author : Emily Zants
Publisher : Emtext
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029095430
Author : Dayna Oscherwitz,MaryEllen Higgins
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810870383
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumi_re in 1895 with the invention of the cinZmatographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinZmatographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumi_re's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumi_re factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy, and Charles PathZ. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors_Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Fran_ois Truffaut, and Louis Malle_and actors_Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, GZrard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The A to Z of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors, directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film, movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and the expert alike.
Author : Jacob Leigh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441198990
Since the death of the French film director Eric Rohmer in 2010, interest in his work has reignited. Known as the last of the established directors in the French New Wave, Rohmer took complete control over all his films, acting as his own producer throughout his career, and writing the scripts. He also made his mark by taking the lead in casting and location scouting - as French seaside resorts with beautiful young people are some of the elements present in most of his films. Combining history and criticism, Jacob Leigh pens the first chronological survey of this understudied filmmaker in order to give readers clear insights into how Rohmer's films came about and what he intended them to be. The book provides in-depth analysis of the themes and ideas of Rohmer's twenty-three feature films, and illustrates the complexity of their cinematic style. Leigh's study is the perfect introduction to the work of this great filmmaker, for both students and the general reader.
Author : Michael Temple,Michael Witt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349929092
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.
Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764460
An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France provides an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).
Author : Jill Godmilow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231554701
Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the North to the recent Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series The Vietnam War. Tethered to what Godmilow calls the “pedigree of the real” and the “pornography of the real,” they fail to activate their viewers’ engagement with historical or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of poverty or the horrors of war, conventional documentaries produce an “us-watching-them” mode that ultimately reinforces self-satisfaction and self-absorption. In place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a “postrealist” cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Buñuel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.
Author : Emily Zants
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810836270
Martin Scorcese has called Bertrand Tavernier FranceOs leading director. The New Republic referred to him as Oone of the best directors alive.O Despite his skill and some critical acclaim, Tavernier is often misunderstood. The first work on Tavernier written in English, this book examines ten feature films that characterize Tavernier as an auteur. This book is essential reading for all of those interested in French film, independent filmmakers, students or teachers of film history, and, of course, fans of Tavernier.
Author : Réka M. Cristian,Zoltán Dragon
Publisher : JATEPress Kiadó
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789634828587
Author : Rosemary Holsinger,Camille Jordan,Leon Levenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033616124
Author : Dayna Oscherwitz,MaryEllen Higgins
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123291176
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinématographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumière's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumière factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges Méliès, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathé. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors-Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Louis Malle-and actors-Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The Historical Dictionary of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors, directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film, movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and the expert alike.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : French literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113771781
Author : Emily Zants
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040731195
This study argues that the evolution of the French novel has been towards cinema, based on chaos and complexity theories. In its attempt to break away from the frozen forms of hierarchical thought inherent to the Monarchy and the Bourgeoisie, to engender a new order of thought, novels have developed techniques and structures such as fragmentation, doublings, flashbacks, or metaphorical representations that are cinematic because they engender a sense of spatial and temporal simultaneity whereas the traditional novel is condemned to the linearity of words. This evolution is significant because the new techniques suspend the reader's habitual frame of reference and engage him/her in a consideration of new relationships.
Author : Susan Rubin Suleiman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822322153
Essays that range chronologically from the Renaissance to the 1990s, geographically from the Danube to the Andes, and historically from the Inquisition to the Holocaust, examine the complexities and tensions of exile, focusing particularly on whether exile tends to block, or to enhance, artistic creativity. 16 photos.
Author : June Yip
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333678
DIVTraces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination./div
Author : Hermes A. Kick
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912879
For none of the central survival problems of mankind, which include the increase of the world population, limited resources, transcultural communication problems and information overload, convincing solution concepts exist so far. The areas of tension mentioned are taken up in this volume and placed in the context of overstrain and rebellion of the individual and society. They are the impetus for philosophical thinking and for the conceptualization of the process-dynamic approach as a survival strategy that leads to practical philosophy. Overcoming the borderline situation shows "what man actually is and can become" (Karl Jaspers). Using numerous examples from the fields of psychotherapy, artistic and political action, this book shows that historical and phenomenological analysis needs to be complemented by a process-dynamic approach.