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UNINA9910822679203321 |
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Autore |
Hayward Susan |
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Titolo |
French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film / / Susan Hayward |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Bristol [U.K.], : Intellect, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-89606-7 |
9786612896064 |
1-84150-434-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (482 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Performing arts - France |
Motion pictures, French |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-457) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Contexts -- pt. 2. Fairytales, foxy women and swashbuckling heroes -- pt. 3. Representing history : epics, courtesans and master narratives 1796-1888 -- pt. 4. Belle epoque mania : Paris, the provinces and biopics. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950's, French cinema provided audiences a seemingly unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth and earlier centuries, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon, the Belle Époque, the Revolution and further back still to seventeenth-century swashbuckler adventures and tales of mystery and revenge. Film critics, have routinely dismissed this period and this genre of French cinema, overlooking its importance in terms of political cultural history. French Cost |
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