French Cinema
To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influence, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most beloved films. \ In French Cinema, he focuses his lens on outstanding examples from each era to give the cineaste in each of us new insight into our own favorites. Directors...
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Illustrations11Introduction17Chapter 1The Invention of Motion Pictures and the Silent Era of Film23France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century23The Invention of the Cinematographe25Georges Melies and the Adventure of the Film Studio32Growth of a National Cinema: Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont36The Invention of Genres: Louis Feuillade and Max Linder39Avant-garde Cinema, French Impressionism, and Surrealism: Louis Delluc, Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Luis Bunuel, and Rene Clair45Chapter 2The Golden Age of French Cinema53The Style of the 1930s53The "Talkies"55French Cinema and Economic Recession62Verbal Cinema or Filmed Language? Marcel Pagnol67Beyond Filmed Theater: Toward Poetic Realism73Artists and Masters of Poetic Realism: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir, and Jean Vigo75Cinematography and the Poetics of Images100Chapter 3French Cinema of the Occupation103France in 1940104The Exodus of French Cinema Celebrities106French Cinema and Vichy111Propaganda and Censorship: The Case of Henri-Georges Clouzot115Working Conditions under the Occupation: Marcel Carne124Resistance and Liberation136Chapter 4The Postwar Era143The Fourth Republic and Postwar France144The Blum-Byrnes Agreements148The Prestige of French Cinema or Cinema of Prestige? Jean Cocteau150A Certain Tradition de Qualite157Comedy a la francaise: Claude Autant-Lara167Film Noir or film d'ambiance: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker, and Rene Clement170Toward a New Cinema: Robert Bresson, Jacques Becker, and Rene Clement183Chapter 5The Years of the French New Wave195France during and after the Events of 1958196The Signs of Change: Louis Malle201Les cahiers du cinema and the Auteur Theory206The Emergence of the New Wave: Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, and Agnes Varda210The Return of Commercial Movie Successes239Chapter 6French Cinema of the 1970s245May '68: A New Cultural Era246Economic Assessment of French Cinema249The "Scandal" of the Cinematheque Francaise252Political Cinema as a New Genre: Louis Malle, Joseph Losey, and Costa-Gavras253The Last Days of the French Polar: Jean-Pierre Melville and Henri Verneuil262The Humanists' School: Claude Sautet, Francois Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer270The Storytellers: Bertrand Blier and Bertrand Tavernier286Chapter 7The Cinema of the 1980s298France in the 1980s299French Cinema of the 1980s: Over One Thousand Films Produced304Transformations in the French Film Industry306A New Partner: Television310The Old School of Filmmakers: Francois Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier, Bertrand Blier, and Maurice Pialat313The Super Productions: Claude Berri and Jean-Jacques Annaud326New Directors for a New Generation: Jean-Jacques Beineix and Luc Besson338The Rebirth of Popular Comedies: Coline Serreau and Claude Zidi346Chapter 8The Last Decade and Beyond349French Society in the 1990s350The Improving Health of French Cinema351A Unique Financial-Aid System354French Television358French Cinema Abroad361New Artists, New Creators: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro365The Epics: Regis Wargnier and Claude Berri376Period Dramas: Patrice Chereau, Alain Corneau, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and Patrice Leconte382The Return of Comedies at the Box Office: Jean-Marie Poire and Francis Veber400The New French Cinema--Le Jeune Cinema: Mathieu Kassovitz and Eric Zonca405The Digital Revolution and the High-Definition System: Pitof414Abbreviations419Appendix421Notes434Select Bibliography468Index475
