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French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film /
When political and civil unrest threatened France?s social order in the 1950s, 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, t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago :
Intellect,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contexts. Introduction
- Setting out the terrain: genre and history
- Setting out the terrain: technologies, technicians and stars
- Fairytales, foxy women and swashbuckling heroes. Costume drama from late-medieval to the eighteenth century: an overview
- Mysterious microcosms: three 'fairytales'
- Foxy women: queens, mistresses and minxes
- Swashbuckling heroes
- Representing history: epics, courtesans and master narratives 1796-1888. Setting the terrain: France 1796-1888
- Representing history: 1796-1814 Napoleon Bonaparte/Napoleon I
- Representing the social: restoration-July Monarchy (1814-1848)
- Epic grandeur: part one, philanthropists
- Epic grandeur: part two, avengers
- From the Second to the Third Republic: innovation, corruption and new identities
- The Second Empire in the pink: violets, waltzes, and the pursuit of knowledge
- The Second Empire in the raw: Martine Carol's celebrity courtesans
- From Empire to Republic: a modernized France emerging
- Censoring the classics: Bel-Ami, Louis Daquin (1954; released in France 1957)
- Belle Epoque mania: Paris, the provinces and biopics. Belle Epoque films: an overview
- Parisian society of the Belle Epoque through film
- Truth and lies and the pursuit of marriage: love intrigues outside Paris
- Making li(v)es: Belle Epoque biopics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix: French costume drama of the 1950s
- Index.