Mists of regret : culture and sensibility in classic French film /

An examination of pre-World War II French cinema, which analyzes the works of such directors as Renoir, Gremillon and Chenal in order to explain why the French were first to give maturity to the sound film. The study also describes the importance of these films in the context of French culture.

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Andrew, Dudley, 1945-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1995.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1zm2v0m
Оглавление:
  • Introduction: a compass in the mist of poetic realism
  • Impressionism and surrealism: the origins of an optique
  • Adolescents in an adolescent industry
  • French cinema and the sonic boom
  • Theatrical models for French films
  • The literary and artistic sources of poetic realism
  • Demands of realism
  • Figures of the poetic
  • Jean Renoir: adaptation, institution, auteur
  • The myth of poetic realism
  • Epilogue: Le temps des cerises and the fruit of regret
  • Appendix: Chronology of French films mentioned.