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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Paris: Larousse, 2000. — IX, 278 p., ill. — ISBN: 2-03-505008-1. Traversé de moments d'intense magie en même temps que de crises et de doutes, le cinéma français mériterait qu'on lui consacre un livre, après plus de cent ans d'existence. Une histoire du cinéma français répond à ce vœu : rendre hommage en un volume à ce développement national d'un art qu'on dit moribond, mais...
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, 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...
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...