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French National Cinema (National Cinemas)
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Product Description
This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #180653 in Books
- Published on: 2005-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 408 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'This factual and analytical book offer[s] the reader an encompassing and informative introduction to a "global picture" of French cinema.' - Scope
'This is an ambitious and useful text ... this is a worthy and in many ways a very helpful edition of a text that has played an important role in encouraging new ways of thinking about French film history.' – Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
From the Back Cover
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. French National Cinema, 2nd Edition offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an 'ecohistory' of the French film industry, it 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, 2nd Edition breaks new ground in 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.
About the Author
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)
