Encyclopedia Of French Film Directors

Author : Philippe Rège
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810869394

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Encyclopedia of French Film Directors by Philippe Rège Pdf

Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : LCCN:2009007159

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Encyclopedia of French Film Directors: N-Z by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Sarris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1578590280

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The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia by Andrew Sarris Pdf

This book covers the spectrum of significant filmmakers from Altman to Armstrong, Kazan to Kurosawa, Truffaut to Tarantino. With entries written by distinguished critics such as Dudley Andrew, Jeanine Basinger, David Bordwell, Raymond Durgnat, Roger Manvell, Gerald Mast, and Robin Wood, it will be a standard reference tool for many years to come. In line with Sarris's auteur theory of directing, the contributors consider the ways in which directors put their personal stamp on their work.

Author : Janis L. Pallister
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0838637361

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French-speaking Women Film Directors by Janis L. Pallister Pdf

This guide offers listings of some 300 Francophone women from around the world & their work. Wherever possible, entries include dates, brief biographies, descriptions & brief critical analyses.

Author : Michaël Abecassis,Marcelline Block,Felicity Chaplin
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 1800797656

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The Art of Directing by Michaël Abecassis,Marcelline Block,Felicity Chaplin Pdf

"It is not by chance that films by Renoir, Bresson, Varda, Godard, or Truffaut - to name just a few - have become widely studied around the world, with their directors becoming household names. Yet there are so many others who have made their mark on French and international cinema. The aim of this dictionary is to shed light on the directing process and to help people discover forgotten directors and rediscover prominent ones who have made Francophone cinema what it is today. This book is intended as a reference resource for students, scholars, and academics as well as film lovers, who will find both biographical and filmographic references, allowing them to gain an understanding in a nutshell of a particular director's career and its influences as well as its impact upon and legacy for the world of French cinema - and beyond. When one considers all the directors who have impacted French cinema - from the silent era to our current digital and streaming age - this work is as exhaustive and inclusive as possible"--

Author : Hugo Frey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719064570

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Louis Malle (French Film Directors). by Hugo Frey Pdf

This critical analysis of the work of Louis Malle, director of 'Au Revoir les Enfants' and 'My Dinner with André', focuses on the most challenging aspects of his oeuvre, such as his portayals of Nazi-occupied France.

Author : Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Film
ISBN : UCSC:32106011456255

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Encyclopedia of European Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau Pdf

Published to coincide with the Centenary of Cinema in 1995, this A-Z guide of European film provides an overview of the development of European cinema. It contains biographies of important figures and filmographies, and covers significant films, schools of thought and awards.

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415234405

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Encyclopedia of Early Cinema by Richard Abel Pdf

The Encyclopedia presents more than 1,000 entries on the basic trajectory of early cinema history, with coverage of film production, filmmakers, film genres, and individual films.

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719070147

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Henri-Georges Clouzot by Christopher Lloyd Pdf

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a filmmaker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystère Picasso).

Author : Ephraim Katz
Publisher : New York : Crowell
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Cinéma
ISBN : 0690012047

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The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz Pdf

An encyclopedia of world cinema listing American, British, and international subjects and artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of the motion picture.

Author : Sabine Haenni,Sarah Barrow,John White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317682608

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films by Sabine Haenni,Sarah Barrow,John White Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting films of all time. Arranged alphabetically, each entry explores why each film is significant for those who study film and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the film was produced. Ranging from Hollywood classics to international bestsellers to lesser-known representations of national cinema, this collection is deliberately broad in scope crossing decades, boundaries and genres. The encyclopedia thus provides an introduction to the historical range and scope of cinema produced throughout the world.

Author : Rebecca Hillauer
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9774249437

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Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers by Rebecca Hillauer Pdf

Arab women filmmakers: Who are they? What drives them? What are their experiences in a male-dominated profession? How do they function within the contexts - and constraints - of patriarchal societies? The answers are complex and sometimes surprising, as complex and surprising as the vastly different films these women direct. In this unprecedented book, Rebecca Hillauer assembles a comprehensive and penetrating look into the history of Arab women's filmmaking, as well as the political and social background of the countries - Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, among others - from which these artists emerged. In addition to the biographies, filmographies, and discussions of their most important works, lively, in-depth interviews allow us to hear from the filmmakers themselves. Collectively, these women, who hail from a wide range of professional, religious, and social backgrounds, provide a varied and vivid picture of what it means to work in creative and journalistic fields in the modern Arab world. For Hillauer, the subject of a film, its genesis, and the personal story of the artist who created it reveal far more than a particular approach to cinematography. Arab women filmmakers and their main characters (who are often semi-autobiographical) not only afford us a look at seldom-seen facets of Arab societies, they personify an alternative women's 'model,' one that is far removed from western clichés. Broad in scope, and rich in insight, Arab Women Filmmakers is a must read for cineastes as well as students of film, feminism, and the Middle East.

Author : Dan North,Bob Rehak,Michael S. Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844579044

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Special Effects by Dan North,Bob Rehak,Michael S. Duffy Pdf

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacle to examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to our contemporary transmedia landscape. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book illuminates and interrogates the vast array of techniques film has used throughout its history to conjure spectacular images, mediate bodies, map worlds and make meanings. Foreword by Scott Bukatman, with an Afterword by Lev Manovich.

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 2114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781593394929

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Pdf

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for information on the people, places, and events of yesterday and today. Students, teachers, and librarians can find fast facts combined with the quality and accuracy that have made Britannica the brand to trust. A tool for both the classroom and the library, no other desk reference can compare.

Author : Dayna Oscherwitz,MaryEllen Higgins
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123291176

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Historical Dictionary of French Cinema by Dayna Oscherwitz,MaryEllen Higgins Pdf

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.