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Paris, Female Stardom, and 1930s French Cinema

Author : Jennifer Elise Branlat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Paris, Female Stardom, and 1930s French Cinema written by Jennifer Elise Branlat and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study investigates Parisian femininity in 1930s French cinema in order to show how representations of women draw from city spaces, real or imagined, and the extent to which these images are made visible by the French star system as it reorganizes with the advent of sound. I claim that the three stars of this study, Annabella, Arletty, and Danielle Darrieux, develop distinctly Parisian star images that draw from both a past cultural tradition that eroticizes the urban lower-class woman and modern ideals concerning her independence and mobility through the urban environment. My analysis of representations of women in the films Quatorze juillet (René Clair, 1933), Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné, 1938), Abus de confiance and Retour à l'aube (Henri Decoin, 1937, 1938) reveals that, while archetypal figures like the midinette (shopgirl) and the prostitute are anchored in idealized images of the popular neighborhood life of the past, the appearance of a modern woman in the second half of the decade is concurrent with looking to new city spaces and experiences to tell stories about women. Solitary walking, driving, shopping, and going to the cinema, for example, are depicted as privileged moments of reflection or leisure offered to women in the public sphere. In order to account for these new possibilities for female mobility and vision, I develop a theoretical framework that engages in the critical debate on female flânerie (solitary strolling), initially developed to describe the male urban subject. Finally, these insights concerning 1930s female stardom are crucial to an understanding of post-war films in which female mobility is addressed as an integral part of public life for women.

Paris, Female Stardom, and 1930s French Cinema

Author : Jennifer Branlat
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Paris, Female Stardom, and 1930s French Cinema written by Jennifer Branlat and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The French Screen Goddess

Author : Jonathan Driskell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857726749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The French Screen Goddess written by Jonathan Driskell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years before Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve rose to fame, the French cinema produced a host of glamorous female stars designed to rival their Hollywood counterparts. Bathed in soft light, discussed adoringly in fan magazines and shown wearing the latest fashions, these 'cinematic stars' emerged in opposition to France's traditional stage-based stardom, while remaining, through the roles they played and the looks they sported, a distinctly French phenomenon. The French Screen Goddess examines how these stars influenced the narratives and look of their films, contributed to defining the period's new, emancipated femininity -, the 'modern woman' -, and related to the decade's politics, particularly the Popular Front of the mid-1930s. The book focuses on the three most important examples of this type of stardom, Annabella, Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan, while also considering many other key stars, such as Arletty, Viviane Romance and Jean Gabin. Previously neglected films are considered and true classics of French cinema re-examined, with Rene Clair's Quatorze juillet, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera, and Marcel Carne's Le Quai des brumes and Hotel du Nord foremost among these.

The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956

Author : Noël Burch
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237725X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956 written by Noël Burch and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956, Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying particular attention to the Occupation years (1940–44). The authors contend that the films produced from the 1930s until 1956—when the state began to subsidize the movie industry, facilitating the emergence of an "auteur cinema"—are important, both as historical texts and as sources of entertainment. Citing more than 300 films and providing many in-depth interpretations, Burch and Sellier argue that films made in France between 1930 and 1956 created a national imaginary that equated masculinity with French identity. They track the changing representations of masculinity, explaining how the strong patriarch who saved fallen or troubled women from themselves in prewar films gave way to the impotent, unworthy, or incapable father figure of the Occupation. After the Liberation, the patriarch reemerged as protector and provider alongside assertive women who figured as threats not only to themselves but to society as a whole.

The French Screen Goddess

Author : Jonathan Driskell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735667
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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French XX Bibliography, Issue #65

Author : Sheri K. Dion
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 157591204X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book French XX Bibliography, Issue #65 written by Sheri K. Dion and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brigitte Bardot

Author : Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714707
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Brigitte Bardot written by Ginette Vincendeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.

Chanteuse in the City

Author : Prof. Kelley Conway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938577
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Chanteuse in the City written by Prof. Kelley Conway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life, and the rough neighborhoods of Paris. Icon of working-class femininity and the underworld, the realist singer signaled the emergence of new cultural roles for women as well as shifts in the nature of popular entertainment. Chanteuse in the City provides a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Fréhel, and Damia. Above all, Conway offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the café-concert. Conway uncovers an important tradition of female performance in the golden era of French film, usually viewed as a cinema preoccupied with masculinity. She shows how—in films such as Pépé le Moko, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, and Zouzou—the realist chanteuse addresses female despair at the hopelessness of love. Conway also sheds light on the larger cultural implications of the shift from the intimate café-concert to the spectacular music hall, before the talkies displaced both kinds of live performance altogether.

Film Moments

Author : James Walters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715789
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Film Moments written by James Walters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines to create the whole. Our memories of films are composed of the moments we deem to be crucial: touchstones for our understanding and appreciation. Moments matter. The 38 specially commissioned essays in Film Moments examine a wide selection of key scenes across a broad spectrum of national cinemas, historical periods and genres, featuring films by renowned auteurs including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli and important contemporary directors such as Pedro Costa, Zhang Ke Jia and Quentin Tarantino, addressing films including City Lights, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Night of the Hunter, Wild Strawberries, 8 1?2, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Conte d'été, United 93 and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Film Moments provides both an enlightening introduction for students to the diversity of approaches and concerns in the study of film, and a dynamic and vibrant account of key film sequences for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cinema.

Classic French Noir

Author : Deborah Walker-Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786735180
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Classic French Noir written by Deborah Walker-Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.

The Cinema Book

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718699
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema Book written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this edition features a wealth of exciting new sections and in-depth case studies. Sections address Hollywood and other World cinema histories, key genres in both fiction and non-fiction film, issues such as stars, technology and authorship, and major theoretical approaches to understanding film.

The Cinema of France

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764465
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of France written by Phil Powrie and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France provides an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).

Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus

Author : Lucy Mazdon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458559
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus written by Lucy Mazdon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship. As this collection of essays reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between British critical esteem for the films of France and French dismissal of ‘le cinéma British’, or the success of Ken Loach et al. at the French box office and the relative dearth of French movies on British screens. In fact, there has long been a rich and productive dialogue between these two cultures in which both their clear differences and their shared concerns have played a vital role. This book provides an overview of the history of these relations from the early days of sound cinema to the present day. The chapters, written by leading experts in the history of French, British and European cinema, provide insights into relations between French and British cinematic cultures at the level of production, exhibition and distribution, reception, representation and personnel. The book features a diverse range of studies, including: the exhibition of French cinema in Britain in the 1930s, contemporary ‘extreme’ French cinema, stars such as Annabella, David Niven and Jane Birkin and the French Resistance on British screens.

Paris in the Dark

Author : Eric Smoodin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007532
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Paris in the Dark written by Eric Smoodin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paris in the Dark Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on a wealth of journalistic sources, Smoodin recounts the ways films moved through the city, the favored stars, and what it was like to go to the movies in a city with hundreds of cinemas. In a single week in the early 1930s, moviegoers might see Hollywood features like King Kong and Frankenstein, the new Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier movies, and any number of films from Italy, Germany, and Russia. Or they could frequent the city's ciné-clubs, which were hosts to the cinéphile subcultures of Paris. At other times, a night at the movies might result in an evening of fascist violence, even before the German Occupation of Paris, while after the war the city's cinemas formed the space for reconsolidating French film culture. In mapping the cinematic geography of Paris, Smoodin expands understandings of local film exhibition and the relationships of movies to urban space.

Chanteuse in the City

Author : Kelley Conway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244079
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Chanteuse in the City written by Kelley Conway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of French film in the inter-war years focusing on women, particularly women singers, and the role they played in shaping a national, populist, Paris-oriented French cinema.

Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629602
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema written by Phil Powrie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of a French silent cinema star. It focuses on Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema star in the 1920s, the French Valentino, best-known to modern audiences for his role as the protagonist of the avant-garde film classic Un chien andalou. Unlike other stars, he was linked to intellectual circles, especially the Surrealists. The book places Batcheff in the context of 1920s popular cinema, with specific reference to male stars of the period. It analyses the tensions he exemplifies between the 'popular' and the 'intellectual' during the 1920s, as cinema - the subject of intense intellectual interest across Europe - was racked between commercialism and 'art'. A number of the major films are studied in detail: Le Double amour (Epstein, 1925), Feu Mathias Pascal (L'Herbier, 1925), Education de prince (Diamant-Berger, 1927), Le Joueur d'echecs (Bernard, 1927), La Sirene des tropiques (Etievant and Nalpas, 1927), Les Deux timides (Clair, 1928), Un chien andalou (Bunuel, 1929), Monte-Cristo (Fescourt, 1929), and Baroud (Ingram, 1932).Key features:*The first major study of a French silent cinema star.*Provides an in-depth analysis of star performance.*Includes extensive appendices of documents from popular cinema magazines of the period.

From France With Love

Author : Mary Harrod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857726668
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book From France With Love written by Mary Harrod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love stories have always been at the heart of French cinema, but romantic comedies have, until recently, been absent from it. In 2001, the global success of Amelie catalysed a major development in the Western world's second-largest film industry: the appropriation of the 'Hollywood' romantic comedy genre (or Rom-Com a l'Americaine). In From France with Love, Mary Harrod explores this contemporary phenomenon, examining both local hits and films with international status. Using socio-cultural data, box-office figures and analysis of critical reception, she reveals the ways in which these films mirror shifting attitudes towards gender roles within French society, as well as the increasingly important interrelation between French national cinema and transnational filmmaking paradigms.