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BL
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949076
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b703446
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| Main Entry
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Hayward, Susan,1945-
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| Title & Author
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French national cinema /\ Susan Hayward.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1993.
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| Series Statement
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National cinemas series
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0203130200
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: 0415057280
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: 0415057299
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: 6610539561
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: 9780203130209
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: 9780415057288
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: 9780415057295
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: 9786610539567
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0415057280
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0415057299
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-314) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Defining the 'national' of a country's cinematographic production -- 1. A brief ecohistory of France's cinema industry 1895-1992 -- 2. Magical moments of musical silence: French cinema's classical age 1895-1929 -- 3. From clarity to obscurity: French cinema's age of modernism 1930-58 -- 4. From ideology to narcissism: French cinema's age of the postmodern 1958-91.
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| Abstract
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This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cinema that contests it.Susan Hayward argues that writing on French national cinema has tended to focus on either `great' film-makers or on specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them 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. Her analysis includes, amongst other considerations, the social and political concerns these cinemas reflect.
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Motion pictures-- France-- History.
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Cinéma-- France-- Histoire.
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- Reference.
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Cultuurgeschiedenis.
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Filmindustrie.
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Filmkunst.
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France.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/0944
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| LC Classification
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PN1993.5.F7H39 1993eb
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