City of darkness, city of light :

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" City of darkness, city of light : "
Phillips, Alastair

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1094546
Doc. No	:	TLets340059
Main Entry	:	Phillips, Alastair
Title & Author	:	City of darkness, city of light :\ Phillips, Alastair
College	:	University of Warwick
Date	:	1999
student score	:	1999
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	Paris is one of the key sites of meaning regarding France's cinematic output. This thesis surveys the contribution German émigré filmmakers made to the French cinema of the 1930s through a series of case studies of their depiction of the nation's capital city. It argues that this contribution was both typical and singular. The émigrés engaged directly with traditions of Parisian representation, but they also played a distinctive role in the important debate over the direction early French sound filmmaking should take. The body of the thesis contains detailed textual analysis of many émigré productions which have hitherto been ignored within film history. It contextualises this analysis with comparative discussion of films made by indigenous professionals and an examination of past and present intertextual aspects of Parisian culture. The thesis moves beyond aesthetic concerns to also consider the political, industrial and social significance of the work of the émigré Filmmakers. The reception of their films is located within a history of the Franco-German relationship as a whole. By drawing widely upon supporting documentation in critical and trade journals of the time, the thesis provides a new history of a crucial transitional point in the development of European film culture.
Subject	:	DC France
	:	PN1993 Motion Pictures
Added Entry	:	University of Warwick