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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Abel |
ISBN: | 0520079361 9780520079366 0520079353 9780520079359 |
OCLC Number: | 39176609 |
Notes: | "A Centennial book"--Page preceding half-title page. "For this paperback edition ... I have made numerous corrections and changes in the text, some of them significant ... [including] an extensive revision of the Filmography." -- Note to the 1998 edition. |
Description: | xxiii, 568 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | 1. Turn-of-the-Century France -- 2. The French Cinema Industry, 1896-1914 -- The Big Four, 1896-1902 -- Pathe Comes to Power, 1902-1907 -- Strategies of Dominance, 1907-1911 -- Strategies of Survival, 1911-1914 -- 3. The Cinema of Attractions, 1896-1904 -- Trick Films and Feeries -- Comic Films -- Diverging Paths: From Actualites to Historical and Realist Films -- 4. The Transition to a Narrative Cinema, 1904-1907 -- The Bricolage Model -- The Comic Chase Film and Company -- The Pleasure and Pain of Just Looking: Erotic Films and Others -- The Dramatic and Realist Films -- Dissemination and Difference -- The Cinema of Attractions (continued) -- 5. The Pre-Feature, Single-Reel Story Film, 1907-1911 -- Contemporary Melodramas: Light and Dark Variants -- Comics Come in Series -- Film d'Art and Films d'Art: The Historical Film and the Literary Adaptation -- Trick Films and Feeries -- 6. The Rise of the Feature Film, 1911-1914 -- The Historical Film Comes of Age -- Life As It Is: In and Out of Fashion -- Crime Pays: Detectives Versus Criminals -- The Comic Series in Full Swing. |
Responsibility: | Richard Abel. |
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- Motion pictures -- France -- History.
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