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French Film Theory and Criticism

Paperback • 1993 • English

French Film Theory and Criticism

By Richard Abel

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About the book

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current a...Show more

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ISBN

9780691000633

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

1993

Language

English

Original title

French Film Theory and Criticism

Format

Paperback

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