French Film"In this illuminating study of the characteristic styles and personalities of over three dozen principal directors, Roy Armes demonstrates the enormous range and variety of the last seventy-five years of French film making."--Inside page. |
Contents
Authors note | 9 |
From avantgarde to occupation | 39 |
The postwar era | 75 |
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Abel Gance actors Alain Resnais Anna Karina Astruc Autant-Lara Bardot Becker's Cahiers du Cinéma camera career Chabrol characters Claude Claude Chabrol Clément Clouzot collaboration comedy comic concern death Demy director documentary Duvivier early fantasy Fantômas feature films Femme Feuillade Feuillade's Feyder fictional figure France François Truffaut French cinema French film Gabin and Michèle gangster Georges Franju Georges Méliès Godard Grémillon Guitry hero Hollywood Hulot humour influence Jean Cocteau Jean Gabin Jean Renoir Jean-Pierre Jour de Fête Judex L'Atalante Lelouch literary Lola Montès Louis Lumière Lumière's Malle's Marcel Carné Marienbad Marker Méliès's Michèle Morgan Napoléon nineteenth-century novels Ophuls Ophuls's Pagnol Paris Pierre Etaix post-war realist reality René Clair Resnais's Rivette Rivette's Roger Rouch Rouquier Roy Armes script silent cinema spectacle star studio style stylistic Suzanne Simonin t'aime talent Testament d'Orphée theatre theatrical thirties thriller twenties Vadim Varda's Vigo Vigo's visual woman young younger film-makers Zéro de Conduite