Da Capo Press, 1992. — 320 p. — (Quality Paperbacks Series). — ISBN10: 0306804654; ISBN13: 978-0306804656 Edited with an Introduction by F.Truffaut. This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and...
Wallflower Press, 2014. - 160 p. Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur , Murs/Documenteur (1980-81), and...
London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1987 — 285 p. Translated by Abigail Israel. A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Bunuel's method is free from all artifice, and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence. Like Pasolini, his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political...
University Of Chicago Press, 2015. — 192 p. One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier works of the Dadaists and Surrealists...
Indiana University Press; Reprint edition, 1997. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-0253211156 Language: English From 1930 to 1960, France produced some of the most famous films ever made, such as Jean Vigo’s Zéro de conduite and Jean Cocteau’s Orphée. Here Colin Crisp investigates this critical period and details the extraordinary ingenuity of French filmmakers, who worked under economic...
DaCapo Press, 1986. — 300 p. Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinéma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinéma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In...
Philadelphia: Running Press, 2018. — 133 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7624-6346-6. Le Cinéma Français is an irresistible illustrated guide and primer to the best of French films, starting with the 1950s, through the spectrum of French New Wave, and on to modern-day confections. Starring the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau, and directed by iconoclasts such as...
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002. — 498 p. — ISBN: 0826413994. The story of French filmmaking in many ways reflects the whole history of cinema. From the earliest flickering images of the Lumiere brothers in the late 19th century and throughout the years that followed, France has sometimes preceded and often paralleled the technical and artistic developments in...
A research. — Harbor, 2004. — 369 p. — ISBN: 978-0970703958. Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete...
Wallflower Press, 2013. — 152 p. The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. — 342 p. The French New Wave cinema is famous for its exuberance, daring and avant-garde techniques. This is a look at the social, economic and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 216 p. French Animation History is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of animation, illuminating the exceptional place France holds within that history. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011. The first book dedicated exclusively to this history. Explores how French animators have forged their own visual styles,...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 507 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumiere in 1895 with the invention of the cinematographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinematography was the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 9053566341;ISBN13: 978-9053566343. The volume is the first-ever book-length study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of German èmigrè filmmakers, many of whom fled there as a refuge from Hitler. In coming to Paris — a privileged site in terms of production, exhibition, and film culture — these experienced...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 254 p. — ISBN: 9780748621972. This book is the first major study of a French silent cinema star. It focuses on Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema star in the 1920s, the French Valentino, best-known to modern audiences for his role as the protagonist of the avant-garde film classic Un chien andalou. Unlike other stars, he was linked...
Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2011. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 081665462X; ISBN13: 978-0816654628 The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), has long been thought of as a transcendental filmmaker preoccupied with questions of grace and...
Bloomsbury USA, 2002. — 256 p. Written by two leading scholars of French film, this study is an introduction to the history and theory of French cinema and an examination of the concepts and techniques involved in the study of film. It features a model essay, sample film analyses, an appendix of statistics, filmography, bibliography and glossary of terms.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. - 297 p. The Films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's revolutionary New Wave movement in the early 1960s, through a period of drastic political experimentation in the late 1960s and 1970s, to a current introspective period in...
Pocket Essentials, 2008. — 160 p. The directors of the French New Wave were the original film geeks: a collection of celluloid-crazed cinephiles with a background in film criticism and a love for American auteurs. This guide reviews and analyses all the major films in the movement and profiles its principal stars, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina and Brigitte Bardot. An...
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