French National Cinema

<p>This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, <em>French National Cinema</em> offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as <em>Amelie</em> and <em>Belleville Rendez-vous.</em></p><p>Brought wholly up to date to include political and social developments in French cinema in the 1990s, its fresh approach and groundbreaking new writing on the subject offers a much further understanding of French cinema and its relationship with the French national identity. </p><p>New subjects covered include:</p><ul> <li>the GATT negotiations of 1993</li> <li>French cinema's increasing dependence on investment from television</li> <li>the rise of the multiplex</li> <li>the implications of the introduction of digital technology.</li> </ul><p>Ideal for all students of cinema, film studies and film history, this book traces the eco-history of the French film and its key figures and movements, and it places them in their wider political and cultural context.</p> <p>Introduction: Defining the 'National' of a Country's Cinematographic Production 1. A Brief Ecohistory of France's Cinema Industry 1895-2003 2. Magical Moments of Musical Silence: French Cinema's Classical Age 1895-1929 3. From Clarity to Obscurity: French Cinema's Age of Modernism 1930-1958 4. From Ideology to Narcissism: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern 1958-1991 5. Towards a Multiplicity of Voices: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern, Part Two 1992-2004</p>