French National Cinema

By: Susan Hayward

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Paperback | 17 June 2005 | Edition Number 2

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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.

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'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

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Specific Films Society & Culture Media Studies Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies

Introduction : defining the 'national' of a country's cinematographic production	p. 1
A brief ecohistory of France's cinema industry 1895-2004	p. 17
Magical moments of musical silence : French cinema's classical age 1895-1929	p. 76
From clarity to obscurity : French cinema's age of modernism 1930-58	p. 123
From ideology to narcissism : French cinema's age of the postmodern, part I - 1958-91	p. 203
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