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Illustrations | |
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Introduction | |
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The Invention of Motion Pictures and the Silent Era of Film | |
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France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | |
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The Invention of the Cinematographe | |
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Georges Melies and the Adventure of the Film Studio | |
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Growth of a National Cinema: Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont | |
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The Invention of Genres: Louis Feuillade and Max Linder | |
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Avant-garde Cinema, French Impressionism, and Surrealism: Louis Delluc, Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Luis Bunuel, and Rene Clair | |
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The Golden Age of French Cinema | |
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The Style of the 1930s | |
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The "Talkies" | |
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French Cinema and Economic Recession | |
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Verbal Cinema or Filmed Language? Marcel Pagnol | |
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Beyond Filmed Theater: Toward Poetic Realism | |
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Artists and Masters of Poetic Realism: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir, and Jean Vigo | |
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Cinematography and the Poetics of Images | |
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French Cinema of the Occupation | |
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France in 1940 | |
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The Exodus of French Cinema Celebrities | |
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French Cinema and Vichy | |
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Propaganda and Censorship: The Case of Henri-Georges Clouzot | |
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Working Conditions under the Occupation: Marcel Carne | |
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Resistance and Liberation | |
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The Postwar Era | |
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The Fourth Republic and Postwar France | |
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The Blum-Byrnes Agreements | |
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The Prestige of French Cinema or Cinema of Prestige? Jean Cocteau | |
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A Certain Tradition de Qualite | |
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Comedy a la francaise: Claude Autant-Lara | |
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Film Noir or film d'ambiance: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker, and Rene Clement | |
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Toward a New Cinema: Robert Bresson, Jacques Becker, and Rene Clement | |
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The Years of the French New Wave | |
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France during and after the Events of 1958 | |
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The Signs of Change: Louis Malle | |
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Les cahiers du cinema and the Auteur Theory | |
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The Emergence of the New Wave: Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, and Agnes Varda | |
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The Return of Commercial Movie Successes | |
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French Cinema of the 1970s | |
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May '68: A New Cultural Era | |
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Economic Assessment of French Cinema | |
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The "Scandal" of the Cinematheque Francaise | |
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Political Cinema as a New Genre: Louis Malle, Joseph Losey, and Costa-Gavras | |
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The Last Days of the French Polar: Jean-Pierre Melville and Henri Verneuil | |
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The Humanists' School: Claude Sautet, Francois Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer | |
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The Storytellers: Bertrand Blier and Bertrand Tavernier | |
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The Cinema of the 1980s | |
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France in the 1980s | |
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French Cinema of the 1980s: Over One Thousand Films Produced | |
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Transformations in the French Film Industry | |
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A New Partner: Television | |
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The Old School of Filmmakers: Francois Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier, Bertrand Blier, and Maurice Pialat | |
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The Super Productions: Claude Berri and Jean-Jacques Annaud | |
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New Directors for a New Generation: Jean-Jacques Beineix and Luc Besson | |
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The Rebirth of Popular Comedies: Coline Serreau and Claude Zidi | |
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The Last Decade and Beyond | |
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French Society in the 1990s | |
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The Improving Health of French Cinema | |
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A Unique Financial-Aid System | |
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French Television | |
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French Cinema Abroad | |
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New Artists, New Creators: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro | |
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The Epics: Regis Wargnier and Claude Berri | |
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Period Dramas: Patrice Chereau, Alain Corneau, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and Patrice Leconte | |
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The Return of Comedies at the Box Office: Jean-Marie Poire and Francis Veber | |
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The New French Cinema--Le Jeune Cinema: Mathieu Kassovitz and Eric Zonca | |
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The Digital Revolution and the High-Definition System: Pitof | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Appendix | |
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Notes | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Index | |