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Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 examines classic French film, exploring and analyzing the cinema as an institution, the textual system to which it gave rise, and the light that such an approach can shed on the process of production and reception of specific films. Colin Crisp identifies recurrent patterns in the fields of character, narrative, and setting in the French cinema of the early sound period and delineates the myths that these patterns embodied. In Part One he discusses the 1,300 films produced by the French cinema in the 1930s, treating them as a single global textual system that returns obsessively to certain types of story, character, and setting. Part Two deals with publications of the period that comment on those films. The extensive viewer's guide and filmography make this book an essential resource for students of the history of cinema.
Contents
ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart OneIdentity2. Nation and Race3. Class 4. Gender and the Family5. Education, the Media and the Law 6. Art and TranscendencePart Two: Genre, Star, Box Office7. Cinematic Genres in France: "a grotesque mask," or "the genius of the system?"8. The Stars in their (dis)courses: "anemic dreams and poetry for pallid people?"9. Box Office Success in the Thirties: "films debased by popular taste?"ConclusionAppendix A. A Viewer's Guide; Appendix B. Filmography 1929-1939; Notes; Bibliography; Index
