Author : Robert Cravenne
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Brigitte Bardot ovationnée aux Etats-Unis, Gérard Philipe en prise à une foule en délire à Moscou, Alain Delon superstar, Martine Carol dans un tour du monde effréné, Lino Ventura face aux colonels argentins et beaucoup d'acteurs et de metteurs en scène de ce demi-siècle.
Author : Rielle Navitski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520391411
"In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who worked in concert with French and France-based organizations. In promoting the emerging concept and practice of art cinema, these film-related institutions advanced geopolitical and class interests simultaneously in a polarized Cold War climate. Seeking to sharpen viewers' critical faculties as a safeguard against ideological extremes in cinema, institutions of film culture lent prestige to Latin America's growing middle classes and capitalized on official and unofficial efforts to boost the circulation of French cinema, enhancing the nation's soft power in the wake of military defeat and occupation. As the first book-length, transnational analysis of postwar Latin American film culture, Transatlantic Cinephilia deepens our understanding of how institutional networks have nurtured alternative and nontheatrical cinemas"--
Author : Barnett Singer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786475048
Actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot had a stunning career in France and America in the mid-20th century. Since the 1970s, she has dedicated her life to the welfare and protection of animals, with much personal involvement. In this book the author makes the case that far from being a pretty face or a spotlight grabber, Bardot was an accomplished actress and has always been an intelligent, sensitive individual. Chapters acquaint readers with her Paris childhood and her rebellious coming of age in a Catholic bourgeois family, who disapproved when she appeared on the cover of Elle magazine and was offered a screen test. The book examines her years in film (with careful analysis of her films) and also covers her tumultuous personal life, including suicide attempts, and the beginnings of her interest in animal protection. Final chapters detail her efforts in worldwide animal welfare activism, including the work of her own international foundation.
Author : Patrick Besson
Publisher : Fayard
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 2213683786
"Chez le Boulinier du boulevard Jourdan (Paris, 14e arrondissement), j’ai trouvé en solde un vieux guide Leguèbe des films (Omnibus, 2000). Il y a 22 000 films dedans. L’ancienne propriétaire du livre – une certaine Marité, son prénom étant inscrit sur la page de garde – en avait coché un quart d’entre eux, sans doute ceux qu’elle avait vus. Je me suis rendu compte qu’on avait vu en gros les mêmes. Elle doit avoir mon âge ou un peu plus, car dans son choix il y a pas mal de films américains des années 1940 ou 1950 que j’étais trop jeune pour connaître. Peut-être est-elle décédée. Quand quelqu’un meurt, les héritiers se débarrassent en premier de ses livres. Cette Marité et moi, on avait donc dans la tête les mêmes visages, les mêmes paysages, les mêmes histoires découvertes au cinéma. Cela fait de nous, en quelque sorte, des parents. Comme le sont par exemple tous les chrétiens. Le cinéma n’est-il pas une messe ? Il y a des séances tous les jours et toutes les heures, dans les églises des Champs-Élysées et du Quartier latin. Le cinéma est aussi, après le roman, le second miroir que l’on promène le long du chemin de Stendhal, dont les livres ont fait d’excellents films qu’il n’a pas vus. Premières séances rassemble 438 critiques de films qui, avec leur idéologie en bandoulière, m’ont montré le monde de 2000 à 2009. "P. B.
Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226742431
Looks at the influence of French culture on a variety of motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Gigi" and "Funny Face."
Author : Robert J. Berg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 0300158971
À la rencontre du cinéma français: analyse, genre, histoire is intended to serve as the core textbook in a wide variety of upper-level undergraduate and graduate French cinema courses. In contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches to film, Professor Berg stresses “the cinematically specific, the warp and fabric of the film itself, the stuff of which it is made.” Sufficient proficiency in French is the sole prerequisite: “No previous background in film studies is assumed, nor is any prior acquaintance with French cinema. It will help, of course, to like movies, and to have seen quite a few…” (from the preface).
Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1349929093
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.
Author : Alison J. Murray Levine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1441169229
Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France argues that, between World Wars I and II, documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative to include rural France and the colonies. The book mines a significant body of virtually unknown films and manuscripts for their insight into revisions of French national identity in the aftermath of the Great War. From 1918 onwards, government institutions sought to advance social programs they believed were crucial to national regeneration. They turned to documentary film, a new form of mass communication, to do so. Many scholars of French film state that the French made no significant contribution to documentary film prior to the Vichy period. Using until now overlooked films, Framing the Nation refutes this misconception and shows that the French were early and active believers in the uses of documentary film for social change - and these films reached audiences far beyond the confines of commercial cinema circuits in urban areas.
Author : Isabelle Vanderschelden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857710338
"Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" was the surprise boxoffice success of 2001, with nine million spectators in France, and more than 30 million worldwide. The film turned Audrey Tautou into an international star, in her iconic role as Amelie, a naive French Parisian who devotes herself to mending the lives of the people around her. Shot on location in Paris, the film combines poetic and magical realism with stylish cinematography, original use of colour, state-of-the-art special effects, and an evocative soundtrack; together these have produced a popular film of universal appeal. Isabelle Vanderschelden examines the film's production within the French film industry. She analyzes the issues of genre and narrative that it presents so well. She looks in depth at the film's key scenes, as well as at Jeunet's distinctive visual style and cinematography and his use of digital technology. The national and international receptions of Amelie are explored to establish why the film has caught the public imagination and whether it marks a renewal in the cultural diversity and distinctive identity of the French film industry. This book will be essential reading for cinema lovers and students alike.
Author : Georges Sadoul
Publisher :
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release :
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