Marcel Carn French Film Directors Series

Author : Jonathan Driskell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674114604

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Child of Paradise by Edward Baron Turk Pdf

Traces the career of the influential French director and uses psychoanalytical concepts to analyze his major films.

Author : Ben McCann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857734747

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Le Jour se Lève by Ben McCann Pdf

Le Jour se leve (1939) directed by Marcel Carne, is widely recognised as the classic French Poetic Realist film. Told in flashback, it recounts the story of a man who has committed a murder, and who awaits his fate as the police close in. Carne shuttles between different registers, tones and textures throughout, marshalling the studio's resources to create striking pictorial compositions. The film also contains the great French star Jean Gabin's most iconic performance as Francois, marooned at the top of his apartment building. Ben McCann's perceptive and lively book traces the evolution of Le Jour se leve and situates it in a very specific historical moment. He also underlines the importance of actors Jules Berry and Arletty, production designer Alexandre Trauner, writer Jacques Prevert and cinematographer Curt Courant in establishing the film's tone, mood and visual style. He charts the national and international reception of the film, uncovering a work that deeply divided critics at a time of national crisis. He also reveals Le Jour se leve to be a key transitional work between European and American noir and compares it with the 1947 Hollywood remake. Highlighting its combination of the 'poetic' and the 'realist' this book finally stresses how Le Jour se leve represents the very best of pre-war French studio filmmaking.

Author : Jean Quéval
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858009330345

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Marcel Carné by Jean Quéval Pdf

Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:964201986

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Child of Paradise by Edward Baron Turk Pdf

Author : Hugo Frey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Emily Zants
Publisher : Emtext
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029095430

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Creative Encounters with French Films by Emily Zants Pdf

Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782296288690

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MARCEL CARNÉ ET L'ÂGE D'OR DU CINÉMA FRANÇAIS 1929-1945 by Edward Baron Turk Pdf

L'œuvre de Carné entre 1935 et 1945 symbolise l'une des périodes les plus créatives et les plus prestigieuses de l'histoire du cinéma français. Patrimoine culturel de la France et du monde, ses films mettent en lumière l'impact social et politique de la création artistique, dans une période marquée d'abord par le Front Populaire, puis par la Défaite, la Débâcle et l'Occupation. L'auteur renouvelle l'étude de ces films par l'utilisation des archives personnelles et professionnelles de Carné et grâce aux entretiens qu'il a eus avec le réalisateur et ses collaborateurs artistiques.

Author : Marjorie Vecchio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857725233

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The Films of Claire Denis by Marjorie Vecchio Pdf

The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. With subtlety, depth and at times minimalism and abstraction, her films - including "Chocolat", "Beau travail" and "White Material" - explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a Foreword by Wim Wenders, with whom Denis worked prior to making her own movies, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers most familiar with the working style of Denis, and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker. As Wim Wenders writes in his Foreword: 'This book will hopefully throw many new lights on the amazing director that Klarchen [Claire Denis] became, a path she carved out all on her own.'

Author : William Luhr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781444355932

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Film Noir by William Luhr Pdf

Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements. Brings together a range of perspectives on a topic that has been much discussed but remains notoriously ill-defined Traces the historical development of the genre, usefully exploring the relations between the films of the 1940s and 1950s that established the "noir" universe and the more recent films in which it has been frequently revived Employs a clear and intelligent writing style that makes this the perfect introduction to the genre Offers a thorough and engaging analysis of this popular area of film studies for students and scholars Presents an in-depth analysis of six key films, each exemplifying important trends of film noir: Murder, My Sweet; Out of the Past; Kiss Me Deadly; The Long Goodbye; Chinatown; and Seven

Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191514364

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Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France by Diana Holmes Pdf

Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes seriously the pleasure that women readers consistently seem to find in romance. Drawing on the social constructionist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, the psychoanalytical theories of Jessica Benjamin, and a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Zygmunt Bauman, the book uncovers the history of romantic fiction in France from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and explores its place in women's lives and imaginations. Romance is not defined - as it usually is - solely in terms of its mass-market form. Rather, the history of women's popular fiction is traced in its full context, as one dimension of a literary story that encompasses the mainstream or 'middlebrow' as well as 'high' culture. Thus this study ranges from the formula romance (from the pious but popular Delly to global brand Harlequin), through 'middlebrow' bestsellers like Marcelle Tinayre, Françoise Sagan, Régine Deforges, to critically esteemed stories of love in the work of such authors as Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Elsa Triolet, and Camille Laurens. Criss-crossing the boundaries of taste and class, as well as those of sexual orientation, the romance has been at times reactionary, at others progressive, utopian, and contestatory. It has played an important part in the lives of twentieth-century women, providing both a source of imaginative escape, and a fictional space in which to rehearse and make sense of identity, relationship, and desire.

Author : Martine Beugnet
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526162809

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Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet Pdf

Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)). Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider Denis' work, as well as a comprehensive analysis of individual films. She highlights the resonance of Denis' films in relation to ongoing debates about French national identity and culture, and issues of postcolonial identity, alienation and transgression, as well as examining their exploration of the interface between sexuality, desire and sensuality. This is an essential introduction to Denis, and a sophisticated and illuminating study of her work to date.

Author : David Chanteranne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9791091561501

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Marcel Carné by David Chanteranne Pdf

Metteur en scène mondialement reconnu, partenaire de Prévert, Trauner et Kosma, représentant du réalisme poétique, Marcel Carné fut le réalisateur d'un des plus grands succès du cinéma français, Les Enfants du Paradis. À la fois découvreur de talents et directeur d'acteurs hors pair, celui que Gabin appelait " le môme " pour son éternelle jeunesse d'esprit offrit également certains de leurs plus beaux rôles à Jean-Louis Barrault, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Arletty, Gérard Philipe, Annie Girardot et Jacques Brel. Il confirma ou révéla à l'écran Jean Marais, Michèle Morgan, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Roland Lesaffre mais égale-ment la jeune génération des Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur et même Robert de Niro. La liste de ses chefs-d'oeuvre suffit aussi à rappeler ses réussites, de Drôle de Drame à Trois Chambres à Manhattan, en passant par Le Quai des brumes, Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se lève, Les Visiteurs du soir, Les Portes de la nuit, Juliette ou la Clef des songes, Thérèse Raquin ou Les Tricheurs. S'appuyant sur ses archives personnelles et des entre-tiens inédits, levant le voile sur les répliques célèbres ("T'as de beaux yeux tu sais ", "Atmosphère, atmosphère") ou la chanson Les Feuilles mortes, ce livre permet de suivre le processus de création de vingt-deux films parmi les plus célèbres de l'histoire.

Author : Brett Bowles
Publisher : French Film Directors Series
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784992844

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Marcel Pagnol by Brett Bowles Pdf

First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director.

Author : Fiona Handyside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 1496802500

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Eric Rohmer by Fiona Handyside Pdf

"The 1969 film "Ma nuit chez Maud" catapulted ... Eric Rohmer, born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in to the limelight and sold over a million tickets in France, earning a nomination for an Academy Award ... [It] remains his most famous film, the highlight of an impressive range of work examing the sexual, romantic and artistic mores of contemporary France ... The interviews in this book offer a range of insights into the theoretical, critical and practical circumstances of Rohmer's remarkably coherent body of films ... This book reproduces little-known interviews alongside detailed discussions fron Cahiers du Cinéma and Positif, many produced in English here for the first time"--Publisher's description.