The French Cinema Book

BFI 2004/2007. Pehmeäkantinen, 294 sivua. Suuri kirja (tavallista vähän isompi, teksti ladottu kahdelle palstalle) ranskalaisesta elokuvasta. Myynnissä myös Roy Armes: French Cinema sekö French Film - Text and Context. Lähes uudenveroinen.

key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.