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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795603103321

Autore

Neupert Richard John

Titolo

French film history, 1895-1946 / / Richard Neupert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-299-33773-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Wisconsin film studies

Disciplina

791.450944

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Science and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France -- 2. Lumière, Méliès, and the Rise of Cinema in France -- 3. Pathé and Gaumont Create a French Film Industry -- 4. French Production Practices of the 1920s: Revitalizing Art and Industry -- 5. Early 1930s French Cinema: The Transition to Sound -- 6. Late 1930s French Cinema: Innovative Style, Politics, and Poetic Realism -- 7. Occupation Cinema: A Fractured Nation and Film Community -- Epilogue: Toward a New Era in French Cinema -- Bibliography -- Index