Marcel Carn French Film Directors Series

Author : Jonathan Driskell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Ben McCann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Philippe Rège
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:964201986

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Child of Paradise by Edward Baron Turk Pdf

Author : William Luhr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405145947

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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 : Jean Quéval
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858009330345

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Marcel Carné by Jean Quéval Pdf

Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Ben McCann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0755699734

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Le Jour Se Leve by Ben McCann Pdf

Le Jour se lève (1939), directed by Marcel Carné, 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. Carné 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 François, marooned at the top of his apartment building. Ben McCann's perceptive and lively book traces the evolution of 'Le Jour se lève' 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 Prévert, 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 lève to be a key transitional work between European and American noir and compares it with the 1947 Hollywood remake, The Long Night.

Author : Susan Hayward,Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415161177

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French Film by Susan Hayward,Ginette Vincendeau Pdf

This excellent book analyzes key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and popular ideas of national history.

Author : Emily Zants
Publisher : Emtext
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029095430

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Creative Encounters with French Films by Emily Zants Pdf

Author : Marjorie Vecchio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501303098

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French Cinema by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni Pdf

To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influences, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, the rebirth of the industry in the 1990s with the exception culturelle, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most beloved films. Building upon his 2004 best-selling edition, the second edition of French Cinema maintains the chronological analysis, factual reliability, ease of use, and accessible prose, while at once concentrating more on the current generation of female directors, mainstream productions such as The Artist and The Intouchables, and the emergence of minority filmmakers (Beur cinema).

Author : Hugo Frey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Michael Temple,Michael Witt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718862

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The French Cinema Book by Michael Temple,Michael Witt Pdf

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.