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The French Reception of British Cinema

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-03911-360-6
Verlag: Peter Lang
Erscheinungstermin: 22.12.2008
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This book is the first ever full-length study of the reception of British cinema in post-war France, challenging François Truffaut’s infamous dismissal of British cinema as ‘a contradiction in terms’, a comment which has been, and still is, widely reproduced, yet has until now remained critically unexplored.
A historical account, the book gathers together well-known episodes (such as Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s) and critics (André Bazin, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard), along with original new material, and thus throws new light on a topic which, given the influential nature of French film criticism and cinephilia, continues to be at the core of film culture.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9783039113606
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-3-03911-360-6
  • Verlag: Peter Lang
  • Erscheinungstermin: 22.12.2008
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2008
  • Serie: New Studies in European Cinema
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 439 g
  • Seiten: 318
  • Format (B x H x T): 150 x 220 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Contents: Realism and ‘Impure’ cinema: the positive reception of British cinema after WWII – François Truffaut and the New Wave: the vilification of British cinema – The creation of an alternative canon: Positif , Midi-Minuit fantastique , British horror and the fantastic – The ‘return of the social’: Ken Loach in the pantheon – Contemporary press reviews – Interviews with French and British film critics Jean-Paul Török and V.F. Perkins.