Republic of images : a history of French filmmaking / Alan Williams
1992, 1st edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425932
ISBN: 0674762673
Physical description; xii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-440) and index. Contents; The cinema before cinema -- An industry begins -- Growth and diversification -- Decline and mutation -- The mental and the physical -- The commercial and the esoteric -- An unexpected upheaval -- Art and entertainment in the sound film -- Politics, poetics, and the cinema -- War and occupation -- Liberation -- change and continuity -- An alternative film culture -- Fourth wave -- Filmmaking at the margins -- Winds of change. Subjects; Motion pictures France History. Motion pictures. Films. Performing arts. Film criticism. Silent films France History. History.
Price: €45.00