02476nam 2200565 a 450 991079140260332120230725015916.01-282-89606-797866128960641-84150-434-3(CKB)2560000000052748(EBL)605766(OCoLC)680744180(SSID)ssj0000418099(PQKBManifestationID)12127361(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000418099(PQKBWorkID)10368441(PQKB)11668163(MiAaPQ)EBC605766(Au-PeEL)EBL605766(CaPaEBR)ebr10425249(CaONFJC)MIL289606(EXLCZ)99256000000005274820101202d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrench costume drama of the 1950s[electronic resource] fashioning politics in film /Susan HaywardBristol [U.K.] Intellect20101 online resource (482 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-318-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-457) and index.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.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 CostPerforming artsFranceMotion pictures, FrenchPerforming artsMotion pictures, French.791.430944Hayward Susan780802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791402603321French costume drama of the 1950s3683755UNINA