French Cinema - A Very Short Introduction

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema, and although their prominence may have been supplanted by Hollywood today, the French film industry remains both prolific and highly lauded. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Andrew teases out the distinguishing themes, to bring the defining features of French cinema to light.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The 'makeup' of French film and its demaquillage: Jeanne Moreau


• 2: The insurgency of the authentic and the regime of strong fathers : Jean Gabin


• 3: Renoir and Bresson: two incomparable sources


• 4: An intellectual cinema looks back to tradition and forward to the end of history


• 5: The school of the New Wave and the lessons it has taught


• Further reading


• Index

About the author

Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Biographer of André Bazin, he extends Bazin's thought in both What Cinema Is! (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and in the edited volume Opening Bazin (OUP, 2012). Working in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and cultural history, he published Film in the Aura of Art (Princeton University Press, 1984), before turning to French film with Mists of Regret (Princeton University Press, 1995) and Popular Front Paris (Harvard University Press, 2005). For these publications, he was named Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

Summary

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema, and although their prominence may have been supplanted by Hollywood today, the French film industry remains both prolific and highly lauded. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Andrew teases out the distinguishing themes, to bring the defining features of French cinema to light.

Product details

• Authors: Dudley Andrew, Dudley (Professor of Film and Comparative Andrew, Andrew Dudley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9780198718611
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871861-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Films, cinema, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Society and culture: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism