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French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film / Susan Hayward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayward, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--France.
- Performing arts.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol [U.K.] : Intellect, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950's, French cinema provided audiences a seemingly unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth and earlier centuries, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon, the Belle Époque, the Revolution and further back still to seventeenth-century swashbuckler adventures and tales of mystery and revenge. Film critics, have routinely dismissed this period and this genre of French cinema, overlooking its importance in terms of political cultural history. French Cost
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Contexts
- pt. 2. Fairytales, foxy women and swashbuckling heroes
- pt. 3. Representing history : epics, courtesans and master narratives 1796-1888
- pt. 4. Belle epoque mania : Paris, the provinces and biopics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-457) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612896064
- 9781282896062
- 1282896067
- 9781841504346
- 1841504343
- OCLC:
- 680744180
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