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  • The Art of Directing

    A Concise Dictionary of France’s Film Directors

    Edited by Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block, Felicity Chaplin ...
    «This erudite and informative book on French film directors is a comprehensive deep dive into the multi-faceted and interconnected landscape of Francophone cinema. From Akerman to Zidi, via Godard and Gondry, the volume marshals an impressive range of scholars who demonstrate how the French ‘art of directing’ – whether from established legends or emerging voices – is a blend of the perceptive, the ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

  • ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    Series series ReFocus: The International Directors Series

    $98.29 USD

  • Propaganda Documentaries in France

    1940-1944

    by Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit ...
    Translated by Marcelline Block ...
    Series series Film and History
    In occupied France, the Nazis pursued aggressive, tightly orchestrated measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agitation against Americans, Jews, Communists, and others. The documentary film was one instrument of propaganda employed by the Nazi occupiers, as well as the Vichy government and collaborationists. Nearly two hundred of those documentaries have been restored by the ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. Contributors to Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe situate the platinum blonde starlet’s omnipresent cultural relevance within the zeitgeist of current popular culture and explore the influence she has had on numerous elements of it. Her aesthetics and images have been re ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • French Cinema and the Great War

    Remembrance and Representation

    Edited by Marcelline Block, Barry Nevin ...
    Series series Film and History
    Even a century after its conclusion, the devastation of the Great War still echoes in the work of artists who try to make sense of the political, moral, ideological, and economic changes and challenges it spawned. France, the military major power of the Western Front, carries the legacy of battles on its own soil, and countless French lives lost defending the nation from the Central Powers. It is ... Read more

    $99.69 USD

  • World Film Locations: Las Vegas

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers – and starry-eyed lovers – each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many apparent contradictions as Elvis impersonators and this complexity is reflected in the diversity of films that have been shot on location there.A ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • World Film Locations: Paris

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    'We’ll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart’s character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former lover Ilsa Lund goodbye. The backdrop against which they first fell in love, Paris later serves as a reminder of their deep mutual longings. And with a host of different realisations by filmmakers from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Le Grain de la voix dans le monde anglophone et francophone

    Edited by Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block, Gudrun Ledegen, Maribel Peñalver Vicea ...
    Series Book 130 - Modern French Identities
    Comme l’a noté le philosophe Jacques Derrida, l’enregistrement des voix a été l’un des évènements marquants du siècle passé. Le sociolinguiste William Labov s’est intéressé aux motivations sociales des variations phonologiques, mais non pas à la voix en tant que telle. Les recherches effectuées sur la texture et la qualité de la voix ou la relation entre la voix et l’affect sont beaucoup plus ... Read more

    $70.09 USD

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  • French Cinema

    From Its Beginnings to the Present

    by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni ...
    To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influences, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, the rebirth of the industry in the 1990s with the exception culturelle, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most ... Read more

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  • Chris Marker

    Memories of the Future

    by Catherine Lupton ...
    Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers of our time. In landmark films such as Letter from Siberia (1958), La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1982) and Level Five (1996), he overturned the conventions of the cinema, confounding normal distinctions between documentary and fiction, private and public concerns, writing and visual recording, and the still and moving image. ... Read more

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  • French Cinema—A Critical Filmography

    Volume 1, 1929–1939

    by Colin Crisp ...
    This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All ... Read more

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