Winner of the 1984 Theatre Library Association Award
French cinema
The first wave, 1915 - 1929

A moumental work of scholarship on one of the most important {and} neglected areas of film history, Richard Abel's massive study is already clearly destined to occupy a position of deserved pre-eminence in relation to all foreseeable future work done on this seminal period in French cinema - Jonathan Rosenbaum

Richard Abel's book exhibits all the qualities associated with the best tradition in cultural history. Minutely researched, it reconstructs the web of artistic, sociological, and industrial factos that made the last years of silent film so exciting in France.

Added to this is an exploration of the types and qualities of the films themselves.
- Dudley Andrew, American Historical Review

One of the most fascinating things in Richard Abel's monumental, elegantly written and designed history of French silent cinema is his account of the journalists, theorists, ciné-clubs, specialized cinemas, and self-conscious avant-gardists who created film culture during the 1920's ... reading Abel's account gives you the feeling of discovering some vast new continent.
- Voice Literary Supplement

This comprehensive history of the French cinema between World War I and the coming of sound focuses on the narrative film to question most of the received notions about the period, such as the supposed sharp split between avant-gard and commercial filmmakers. Available for the first time in paperback, the book provides a major reassessment of the foreces operation in the French film industry in production, distribution, and exhibition and a thorough account of the rise of the alternate cinema network that grew up independently of the industry as a means for supporting avant-garde films.
In addition, the author presents a study of a previously unexplored topic - the development of the major narrative film genres - and a new working definition of the narrative avant-garde in the context of conventional film practice. This remarkable book analyzes nearly one hundred surviving prints (many previously unavailable to researchers)
Richard Abel is Professor of English at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

softcover
Engels
672 pagina's

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