Enfants du Paradis

Name: Enfants du Paradis
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ISBN: 9780851703657

ISBN-10: 0851703658

ISBN-13: 9780851703657

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jill Forbes

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Les enfants du paradis, a magnificent picaresque saga of parisian street life and popular culture, has been called the greatest film ever made. Completed during the occupation, it nevertheless boasted the largest set ever to have been built in a French studio, a crowd of extras and, under the direction of Marcel Carne, some of the most accomplished technicians and actors available (including Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault as the central couple doomed to remain apart). Jill Forbes examines how, at a time of crisis, the film reimagined the history of France. Although les Enfants du paradis is escapist, even fantastic, Forbes finds in it a radical, counter-cultural sensibility concerned with…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 2/26/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 78
Size: 5.41" wide x 6.40" long x 0.21" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Genesis of the Film


An Alternative Cultural Strategy


History and Fiction


Carne, Barrault, Prevert - Les veritables auteurs du crime


The Theatre in Les Enfants du paradis


The Performer as Hero: Frederick and Debureau


Theatre as Memory and Repetition


Gender and Genre: The Politics of Identity


The Viewer from Flaneur to Voyeur


The World Turned Upside Down


Notes


Credits


Bibliography