French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1
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Charlie Chaplin
Cinema of the United States
Cinematograph
Cinematography
Classical Hollywood cinema
Close-up
Criticism
Cubism
D. W. Griffith
Decoupage
Dramaturgy
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Evocation
Film
Film adaptation
Film criticism
Film industry
Film screening
Film theory
Filmmaking
Furniture
Germaine Dulac
Guillaume Apollinaire
Henri Bergson
High Art
Intertitle
Jacques Feyder
Jean Cocteau
Jean Epstein
L'Inhumaine
La Roue
Lecture
Les Vampires
Lighting
Literature
Louis Aragon
Louis Delluc
Louis Feuillade
Marcel L'Herbier
Melodrama
Mercure de France
Michel Foucault
Modernism
Narration
Narrative
Newspaper
Newsreel
Odor
Pantomime
Pearl White
Philippe Soupault
Photography
Pretext
Revue
Ricciotto Canudo
Ridicule
Romanticism
Salon d'Automne
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Symbolism (arts)
The Other Hand
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- ISBN 9780691000626
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.
Richard Abel is Professor of English at Drake University.
