French National Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780415307826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 408 str.

Susan Hayward

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Defining the 'National' of a Country's Cinematographic Production  1. A Brief Ecohistory of France's Cinema Industry 1895-2003  2. Magical Moments of Musical Silence: French Cinema's Classical Age 1895-1929  3. From Clarity to Obscurity: French Cinema's Age of Modernism 1930-1958  4. From Ideology to Narcissism: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern 1958-1991  5. Towards a Multiplicity of Voices: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern, Part Two 1992-2004

O autorze

Susan Hayward is Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on French film and gender and sexuality in film. Her most recent publication is Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (Continuum, 2003)