Child of Paradise : : Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema / / Edward Baron Turk.

Marcel Carné symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished almost completely to the American film industry. The first critical biography of this director of classic films, including the epic historical romance Les...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1989
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Harvard Film Studies ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (495 p.) :; 113 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Fortune and Critics’ Eyes
  • PART I. The Novice
  • CHAPTER 1. Intimations of Eden
  • CHAPTER 2. Monsieur Feyder’s Protégé
  • CHAPTER 3. Carné and Jacques Prévert
  • CHAPTER 4. Framing an Identity
  • PART II. The Young Master
  • CHAPTER 5. The Popular Front
  • CHAPTER 6. Poetic Realism
  • CHAPTER 7. “Atmosphere, Atmosphere”
  • CHAPTER 8. Strange Defeat
  • PART III. The Monumentmaker
  • CHAPTER 9. The Occupation
  • CHAPTER 10. The Design of Children of Paradise
  • CHAPTER 11. Politics and Theater in Children of Paradise
  • CHAPTER 12. Androgyny, Masochism, and Children of Paradise
  • CHAPTER 13. Primal Scenes from Children of Paradise
  • PART IV. The Outsider
  • CHAPTER 14. In the Afterglow of Triumph
  • CHAPTER 15. Carné sans Prévert
  • CHAPTER 16. Carné and the New Wave
  • CHAPTER 17. Persistence of Vision
  • Epilogue: A Filmmaker of Sadness
  • Filmography. Bibliographical Note. Notes. Credits. Index
  • Filmography
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Index