French Film in Britain : : Sex, Art and Cinephilia / / Lucy Mazdon, Catherine Wheatley.

In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reaches Britain, becoming something quite different to that experienced by audiences at home. Drawing on ex...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Advent of Sound: A Changing Film Culture (1925–1939)
  • 2 Cinema Goes to War (1939–1950)
  • 3 ‘Saucy and Naughty and Witty and Chic’ Can French Films Fill the Gap? (1950–1959)
  • 4 The French New Wave on British Shores (1959–1970)
  • 5 ‘A New Low in French Films’ Changing Perceptions of French Cinema (1970–1982)
  • 6 Video Saved the French Film? (1982–2002)
  • Conclusion
  • Index