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French Film Theory and Criticism 1929-1939

vol.1: 1907-1929 - vol. 2: 1929-1939 (book in English)

by Richard Abel

Type
Studies
Subject
CountriesFrance
Keywords
French cinema, 1930s, history of cinema
Publishing Date
1988
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Collection
(no collection)
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 800 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-691-00062-X
978-0-691-00062-6
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Book Presentation:
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.

Reprint 1993 & 2010.

See the publisher website: Princeton University Press

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