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French Cinema:

From Its Beginnings to the Present
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Continuum, Mar 31, 2004 - Performing Arts - 496 pages
"A final chapter considers the increasingly competitive business dynamic of contemporary French filmmaking as well as French television, the digital and high-definition revolution, and all the latest artistic and popular trends. This sweeping history is further enhanced by some ninety stills and other artwork, including rare, archival photographs of the personalities who have created, and still do, a grand international tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
  

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Selected pages

Contents

INTRODUCTION
17
THE INVENTION OF MOTION
23
THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRENCH
53
CHAPTER y FRENCH CINEMA OF
103
THE POSTWAR ERA
143
Philippe Leroy Manu Borelli and Jean Keraudy Roland
191
CHAPTER 5 THE YEARS OF THE FRENCH
195
Stephane Audran Frederique and Jacqueline Sassard
219
Jean Gabin Vittorio Malanese Alain Delon Roger
268
Francois Truffaut and JeanPierre Leaud
283
THE CINEMA OF THE i98os
298
JeanJacques Beineix
338
THE LAST DECADE AND BEYOND
349
ABBREVIATIONS
419
NOTES
434
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
468

JeanPaul Belmondo Michel and Jean Seberg Patricia
233
FRENCH CINEMA OF THE 79705
245
Yves Montand the deputy in CostaGavrass Z 1969
255
INDEX 475
481
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, author of French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, also published by Continuum International, teaches Italian at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

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TitleFrench Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present
AuthorRémi Fournier Lanzoni
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherContinuum, 2004
ISBN0826416004, 9780826416001
Length496 pages
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