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Very short introductions volume 742
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "cine-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and they boast more film journals, fan magazines, TV...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The French New Wave cinema is famous for its exuberance, daring and avant-garde techniques. This is a look at the social, economic and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Bertrand Tavernier's follow-up to his César-nominated three-and-a-half hour tour through French cinema, "My journey through French cinema" (2017). In this new series, the acclaimed director presents eight hours of new material, guiding us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten, exploring how his country's cinema was shaped by the German occupation and changed again through the New Wave, spotlighting little-known female filmmakers,...
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