This book provides a vital new reading of documentary and realist fiction film of the French 1930s that focuses on how these genres interlock their representati
Summary: "Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history
It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollyw
Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to