The social architecture of French cinema, 1929-1939 /

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This book provides a vital new reading of documentary and realist fiction film of the French 1930s that focuses on how these genres interlock their representations of urban spaces and places.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Flinn, Margaret C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 34.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion pictures > France > History > 20th century.
Architecture and society > France.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > France.
Cinéma > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Architecture et société > France.
Cinéma > Aspect social > France.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Architecture and society
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Film
Dokumentarfilm
Soziale Identität > Motiv
Soziale Wirklichkeit > Motiv
Stadt > Motiv
Architektur > Motiv
Frankrike, 1930-t.
France > In motion pictures.
France
Frankreich
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: An architecture of social being
  • The spatial constitution of 1930s documentary
  • René Clair's city views: realism and Studio Paris
  • Intertext and political margins in Jean Renoir's Boudu Sauvé des Eaux
  • Traversing built history in architectural documentaries
  • Flâneuses and the unmaking of place
  • The crowd as new monumentality during the popular front
  • Epilogue: Poetic realism as spatial fable.

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