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The cinematic muse : critical studies in the history of French cinema / Allen Thiher.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1979.Description: vi, 216 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0826202772
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 T439c 1979
Contents:
[1.] The avant-garde: The impressionist avant-garde -- Surrealism's enduring bite: Un Chien andalou -- The surrealist film: Man Ray and the limits of metaphor -- Le Sang d'un Poéte: film as orphism -- [2.] In the wake of surrealism: From Entr'acte to a Nous la Liberté: René Clair and the order of farce -- Vigo's Zéro de conduite: surrealism and the myth of childhood -- [3.] Film and society: Jean Renoir and the mimesis of history -- Prévert and Carné's Le Jour se lève: proletarian tragedy -- [4.] Existentialist moment: Bresson's Un condamné à mort: the semiotics of grace -- The existential play in Truffaut's early films -- [5.] Postmodernism: L'Année dernière a Marienbad: the narration of narration -- Postmodern dilemmas: Godard's Alphaville and Deux ou trois choses que je sias d'elle -- Afterword: Is film a language?
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 T439c 1979 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000120260

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 207-214.

[1.] The avant-garde: The impressionist avant-garde -- Surrealism's enduring bite: Un Chien andalou -- The surrealist film: Man Ray and the limits of metaphor -- Le Sang d'un Poéte: film as orphism -- [2.] In the wake of surrealism: From Entr'acte to a Nous la Liberté: René Clair and the order of farce -- Vigo's Zéro de conduite: surrealism and the myth of childhood -- [3.] Film and society: Jean Renoir and the mimesis of history -- Prévert and Carné's Le Jour se lève: proletarian tragedy -- [4.] Existentialist moment: Bresson's Un condamné à mort: the semiotics of grace -- The existential play in Truffaut's early films -- [5.] Postmodernism: L'Année dernière a Marienbad: the narration of narration -- Postmodern dilemmas: Godard's Alphaville and Deux ou trois choses que je sias d'elle -- Afterword: Is film a language?

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