French Cinema A Student's Guide
by Powrie, Phil; Reader, KeithEdition: Student
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-12-27
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Written by two leading scholars of French film, this study is an introduction to the history and theory of French cinema and an examination of the concepts and techniques involved in the study of film. It features a model essay, sample film analyses, an appendix of statistics, filmography, bibliography and glossary of terms. Phil Powrieis Professor of French Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research into Film and Media at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Keith Readeris Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Glasgow. Written by two leading scholars of French film, this study is an introduction to the history and theory of French cinema and an examination of the concepts and techniques involved in the study of film. It features a model essay, sample film analyses, an appendix of statistics, filmography, bibliography and glossary of terms. Written by two leading scholars of French film, this study is an introduction to the history and theory of French cinema and an examination of the concepts and techniques involved in the study of film. It features a model essay, sample film analyses, an appendix of statistics, filmography, bibliography and glossary of terms.
Author Biography
Phil Powrie is Professor of French Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research into Film and Media at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Keith Reader is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| History | |
| 1896-1929: the silent period | |
| 1930-1939: the 'early classic era'- from sound to the Second World War | |
| 1939-1945: the war years | |
| 1945-1959: le cinema de papa | |
| 1959-1968: the New Wave | |
| 1968-1981: the New Wave (postscript), realism and comedy | |
| 1981-2001: heritage, the look, women, Beurs, Banlieue, Le Jeune Cinema | |
| Conclusion | |
| Theory | |
| 1900-1945: early film theory | |
| 1945-1960: Andre Bazin and the politique de auteurs | |
| 1950-1970: sociology and structuralism | |
| 1968-1970: ideology and suture | |
| 1970-1980: psychoanalysis and post-structuralism | |
| The space(s) of cinema: Daney, Burch and Gardies | |
| The movement(s) of cinema: Deleuze | |
| The sound(s) of cinema: Chion | |
| Practice | |
| Writing about French films | |
| Essays | |
| Sequence analysis | |
| Appendices | |
| Table 1: History of the French cinema (stars, movements, directors) | |
| Table 2: French theorists of the cinema | |
| Table 3 and Figure 1: numbers of spectators 1945-1999 | |
| Table 4 and Figure 2: numbers of films produced 1945-1999 | |
| Table 5 and Figure 3: share of the French market 1945-1999 | |
| Table 6: best-sellers 1945-1999 | |
| Table 7: the top 50 French films 1945-1999 (by number of spectators) | |
| Table 8: French Prizes 1945-1999 (by numbers of spectators) | |
| Table 9: Oscar for Best Foreign Film won by French films | |
| Table 10: key technical terms in English and French | |
| Further Reading | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index of films and proper names | |
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