The French Cinema Book

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-84457-011-9
Verlag: British Film Institute

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 765 g

is addressed to all lovers of French cinema, students and teachers, specialists and fans. The book addreses such questions as * Who are the men and women who have made French cinema happen? * What is the business culture in which French cinema evolved? * How has technological change effected artistic and commercial innovation? * What have been the most popular and the most experimental forms? * How has the spectator's experience of filmgoing changed in the past 100 years? * How have debates about film reflected cinema's unique place in French culture?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Temple, Michael

Witt, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors General Introduction by Michael Temple and Michael Witt General Further Reading PART ONE: 1890-1930 Introduction: Hello Cinema! Michael Temple and Michael Witt 1. PEOPLE: The Men And Women Who Made French Cinema Richard Abel 2. BUSINESS: A Re-Examination of Key Milestones in the Development of the Industry Michelle Millar 3. TECHNOLOGY: The Drive to Mechanisation and Digitisation Alison McMahan 4. FORMS: The Shifting Boundaries of Art and Industry Ian Christie 5. REPRESENTATIONS: Mutability and Fixity in Early French Cinema Vicki Callahan 6. SPECTATORS: The Cinemising Process: Filmgoing in the Silent Era Elizabeth Ezra 7. DEBATES: Thinking About Cinema: First Waves Monica Dall'Asta Further Reading 1890-1930 PART TWO: 1930-1960 Introduction: Classicism and Conflict Michael Temple and Michael Witt 8. PEOPLE: Migration and Exile in the Classical Period Alastair Phillips 9. BUSINESS: Anarchy and Order in the Classic Cinema Industry Colin Crisp 10. TECHNOLOGY: Imported Technologies in French Film-Making Charles O'Brien 11. FORMS: The Art of Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Classical French Cinema Ginette Vincendeau 12. REPRESENTATIONS: The Geography and Topography of French Cinema Keith Reader 13. SPECTATORS: The Golden Age of Spectatorship Gregory Sims 14. DEBATES: Critical Debate and the Construction of Society Christopher Faulkner Further Reading 1930-1960 PART THREE: 1960-2004 Introduction: A New World Michael Temple and Michael Wit 15. PEOPLE: The Other Auteurs: Producers, Cinematographers, and Scriptwriters Alison Smith 16. BUSINESS: A Certain Idea of the Film Industry Laurent Creton and Anne Jäckel 17. TECHNOLOGY: From Images of the World to the World of Images Laurent Jullier and Lucy Mazdon 18. FORMS: For it is the Critical Faculty that Invents Fresh Forms Nicole Brenez 19. REPRESENTATIONS: Parisian Images and National Transformations Naomi Greene 20. SPECTATORS: The Decline, Fall, and Rebirth in Cinemagoing Sue Harris 21. DEBATES: The Exercise has been Useful, Monsieur Daney James Williams Further Reading 1960-2004 Selected On-Line Resources Further Reading on Films and Film People List of Illustrations Index

Über Autor(innen)

Temple, Michael
<b>Michael Temple</b> teaches French at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of <I>The Name of the Poet </I>(1995), editor of <I>Meetings with Mallarmè </I>(1998), and coeditor of <I>The Cinema Alone: Jean-Luc Godard 1985-2000. </I><b>Michael Witt</b> teaches Film Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He is coeditor, with Michael Temple and James S. Williams, of <I>For Ever Godard: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard from 1950 to the Present </I>(2004).