| French National Cinema Contributor(s): Hayward, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 041530783X ISBN-13: 9780415307833 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2005 Annotation: Susan Hayward argues that writing on French cinema has tended to focus on either "great" film-makers or on non-specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualization of those moments and relocates them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an "ecohistory" of the French film industry, she then traces the various movements in French cinema and the directors associated with them, including the avant-garde, poetic-realist, New Wave and today's postmodern cinema. This new edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments in French cinema in the 1990s and beyond, including the GATT negotiations of 1993, French cinema's increasing dependence on investment from television, the rise of the multiplex, and the implications of the introduction of digital technology. "French National Cinema" breaks new ground in the writing on French cinema, and its fresh approach will further our understanding of how France's cinema interfaces with France's concept of itself as a nation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2004024443 |
| Series: National Cinemas |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.14" W x 9.16" (1.51 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as Amelie and Belleville Rendez-vous. Brought wholly up to date to include political and social developments in French cinema in the 1990s, its fresh approach and groundbreaking new writing on the subject offers a much further understanding of French cinema and its relationship with the French national identity. New subjects covered include:
Ideal for all students of cinema, film studies and film history, this book traces the eco-history of the French film and its key figures and movements, and it places them in their wider political and cultural context. |