French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 : A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 /
Abel, Richard
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 : A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 / Richard Abel. - 1 online resource (484 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Notes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: 1907-1914 -- Before the Canon -- Selected Texts -- PART TWO: 1915-1919 -- Photogenie and Company -- Selected Texts -- PART THREE: 1920—1924 -- Cinegraphie and the Search for Specificity -- Selected Texts -- PART FOUR: 1925-1929 -- The Great Debates -- Selected Texts -- Index
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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 André 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400835485
10.1515/9781400835485 doi
Film criticism--History.--France
Motion picture plays--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History.--France
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Action française. Aeschylus. Andrew, Dudley. Aragon, Louis. Arquillière. Barrabas (1920). Bergson, Henri. Bernstamm, Serge. Bloc National government. Bonnotgang. Boris, Georges. Bresson, Robert. Bébé series. Caille, Alexis. Candide. Canudo, Ricciotto. Castle, Irène. Charpentier, Roger. Cinéa. Cinéopse. Comoedia. Corneille. Crisp, Donald. Dadaism. Delluc, Louis. Derain, Lucie. Destiny (1921). Dulac, Germaine. Dullin, Charles. Eagleton, Terry. Eisenstein, Sergei. Etiévant, Henri. Excelsior. Faure, Elie. Fescourt, Henri. Films Albatros. Fleg, Edmond. Gallimard. Gaugin, Paul. Grave, Jean. Hansen, Miriam. Hériat, Philippe. Impressionist painting. Janowitz, Hans. Kaufman, Boris. Marxism. Nazimova. Offenbach, Jacques. Paracelsus. animated film. avant-garde, concept of. film industry crisis.
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 : A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 / Richard Abel. - 1 online resource (484 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Notes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: 1907-1914 -- Before the Canon -- Selected Texts -- PART TWO: 1915-1919 -- Photogenie and Company -- Selected Texts -- PART THREE: 1920—1924 -- Cinegraphie and the Search for Specificity -- Selected Texts -- PART FOUR: 1925-1929 -- The Great Debates -- Selected Texts -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 André 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400835485
10.1515/9781400835485 doi
Film criticism--History.--France
Motion picture plays--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History.--France
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Action française. Aeschylus. Andrew, Dudley. Aragon, Louis. Arquillière. Barrabas (1920). Bergson, Henri. Bernstamm, Serge. Bloc National government. Bonnotgang. Boris, Georges. Bresson, Robert. Bébé series. Caille, Alexis. Candide. Canudo, Ricciotto. Castle, Irène. Charpentier, Roger. Cinéa. Cinéopse. Comoedia. Corneille. Crisp, Donald. Dadaism. Delluc, Louis. Derain, Lucie. Destiny (1921). Dulac, Germaine. Dullin, Charles. Eagleton, Terry. Eisenstein, Sergei. Etiévant, Henri. Excelsior. Faure, Elie. Fescourt, Henri. Films Albatros. Fleg, Edmond. Gallimard. Gaugin, Paul. Grave, Jean. Hansen, Miriam. Hériat, Philippe. Impressionist painting. Janowitz, Hans. Kaufman, Boris. Marxism. Nazimova. Offenbach, Jacques. Paracelsus. animated film. avant-garde, concept of. film industry crisis.