BackFrench Film Theory and Criticism 1907-1939
vol.1: 1907-1929 - vol. 2: 1929-1939 (book in English)
by Richard Abel
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- French cinema, 1930s, history of cinema
- Publishing Date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- 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 - User Ratings
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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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Menus for Movieland (2015)
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture 1913-1916
by Richard Abel
(in English)
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Cinema and the National (2008)
Dir. Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King
(in English)
Subject: Silent Cinema
Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences (2006)
1910-1914
by Richard Abel
(in English)
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Ciné Goes to Town (1998)
French Cinema 1896 - 1914
by Richard Abel
(in English)
Subject: Silent Cinema
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La bataille du film (2007)
1933-1945, le cinéma français entre allégeance et résistance
by Alain Weber
Le cinéma des années trente par ceux qui l'ont fait, tome 2 (2003)
L'avant-guerre
Les écrans nostalgiques du cinéma français tome 1 (2003)
Les débuts du Parlant 1929-1932
Les écrans nostalgiques du cinéma français tome 2 (2003)
Vers le Front Populaire 1933-1936
Les écrans nostalgiques du cinéma français tome 3 (2002)
L'Avant-Guerre 1937-1939
Le cinéma des années trente par ceux qui l'ont fait, tome1 (2001)
Les débuts du parlant
Le Front populaire et le cinéma français (2017)
Dir. Laurent Creton and Michel Marie
Subject: History of Cinema
Note: A book on a beige background is a book published in a language other than French.