French film theory and criticism : a history/anthology, 1907-1939 / Richard Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Richard, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism--France.

Film criticism.

Motion pictures--France--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Notes

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: 1907-1914

Before the Canon

Selected Texts

PART TWO: 1915-1919

Photogenie and Company

PART THREE: 1920—1924

Cinegraphie and the Search for Specificity

PART FOUR: 1925-1929

The Great Debates

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 1988.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780691000626

069100062X

OCLC:

1273306733