French Film Directors

Author : Philippe Rège
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1486 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Douglas Morrey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719067596

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French film directors by Douglas Morrey Pdf

Morrey offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema, covering the whole of Godard's career from the French New Wave to the more recent triumphs of 'Histoire(s) du cinema' and 'Eloge de l'amour'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Hugo Frey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Martine Beugnet
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719064813

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Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet Pdf

Since her remarkable debut "Chocolat", Claire Denis has been acclaimed as one of the most original filmmakers in France. This title provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider her work, as well as addressing issues such as French national identity and culture in relation to Denis's work.

Author : Janis L. Pallister
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 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,Felicity Chaplin,Marcelline Block
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 180079763X

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

«This erudite and informative book on French film directors is a comprehensive deep dive into the multi-faceted and interconnected landscape of Francophone cinema. From Akerman to Zidi, via Godard and Gondry, the volume marshals an impressive range of scholars who demonstrate how the French "art of directing" - whether from established legends or emerging voices - is a blend of the perceptive, the provocative and the populist.» (Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide) 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 : Guy Austin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526162687

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Claude Chabrol by Guy Austin Pdf

This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'.. Coincides with the recent renewal of interest in Chabrol, which has seen his back catalogue released in the UK on video.. Celebration of Chabrol's fiftieth film recently, Rien ne va plus prompted many festivals and retrospectives. Publication coincides with Chabrol's new film which is discussed in this study.. Writtten by one of the liveliest critics in French cinema - author of Contemporary French Cinema.

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719050766

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Luc Besson by Susan Hayward Pdf

One of the hottest international properties to come out of the new wave of French filmmakers in the 1980s, Luc Besson is a director with a simple mission and a dazzling visual style. One of the most respected names in French film studies, Susan Hayward, sketches Besson's filmmaking career and processes to date, placing the films within their socio-historical and political contexts. She investigates the interface between technology and the body, along with the environments in which the violent interactions between the two get played out. The absence of family and the demise of community are also explored with theoretical sophistication. Besson's films represent the conflicts and tensions of a post-modern age and are perceived as signs of their time.

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Kate Ince
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719068282

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Georges Franju by Kate Ince Pdf

This is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinémathèque française, and the first book on Franju in English since 1967. Enjoying his real debut as a director in 1948 with his notorious documentary about Parisian abattoirs Le Sang des bêtes, Franju went on to make thirteen more courts métrages and eight longs métrages, including his horror classic Les Yeux sans visage. A full introduction and conclusion set Franju's directorial career in the context of his lifelong commitment to France's cinema institutions.

Author : Carrie Tarr
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719050952

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Diane Kurys by Carrie Tarr Pdf

Carrie Tarr's analysis of the cinema of Diane Kurys is the first full-length study of this director, whose delightfully unsentimental reconstructions of the lives of girls and women in post-war France have established her as a distinctive presence in contemporary French film-making. Tarr traces Kurys' trajectory from actress to author, director and producer of her own films and situates her work within debates on women's film-making and female authorship. The book includes detailed readings of each of Kurys' films to date, from the evocation of growing up in the 1960s in Diabolo Menthe to the dilemmas facing contemporary women artists in A la Folie. The conclusion defines Kurys' "authorial signature" and discusses the extent to which she has been able to create a space for female subjectivity within the constraints of contemporary French culture.

Author : Jonathan Driskell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526141637

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Marcel Carné by Jonathan Driskell Pdf

This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carné, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of the 1930s. His films, a number of which were made in collaboration with the poet-turned-scriptwriter Jacques Prévert, include such well-known works as Le Quai des brumes, Le Jour se lève and Les Enfants du paradis. As the first book to be written on Carné for a number of years, it offers a fresh perspective on his cinema, particularly through a re-examination of his post-war work – although many of these films were very popular and offer a fascinating insight into France at the time, they have, until now, largely been neglected. Adopting a carefully crafted aesthetic, his films explore a tension between pessimism and entrapment on the one hand, and transcendence, idealised romantic love and a populist celebration of working-class life on the other. His career traversed key moments in French cinema, including poetic realism, the tradition of quality and the French New Wave, and spanned important historical moments such as the Popular Front of the 1930s, the Second World War and France’s post-war modernisation. This book will be of interest to scholars, students and film-lovers alike.

Author : Douglas Morrey,Alison Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526141507

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Jacques Rivette by Douglas Morrey,Alison Smith Pdf

Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema. A founding figure in the New Wave, and at the centre of the Cahiers du cinéma team, he developed into one of the most unusual and adventurous French directors of the last sixty years, yet his work remains little-known in comparison with his contemporaries, and this study is the first in English to look at the full span of his career. Starting with his decisively influential film criticism of the 1950s, it moves from the New Wave through the complex, experimental films of the 1970s to the challenging, playful dramas which ensured his visibility during the following two decades, and ends in the present, including Rivette’s most recent films, Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003) and Ne touchez pas la hache (2007). The book takes a thematic approach, offering detailed discussion of key elements of Rivette’s film world, including games, conspiracy and jealousy, as well as a study of what Rivette’s cinema adds to our understanding of key theoretical concepts in Film Studies such as narrative, space and adaptation. There are many close analyses of sequences from Rivette’s films including Paris nous appartient (1961), Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719064066

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Alain Resnais (French Film Directors) by Emma Wilson Pdf

Tracing the evolving patterns of Alain Resnais's filmmaking, and its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt, this work provides an introduction to the French film director's work, from his earliest documentaries to his musical films.