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Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking

  • Author: Williams, Alan

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Contents

  • A Note on Film Titles and Dates
  • Introduction
  • Part I : French Cinema Dominates the World Market
  • 1. The Cinema Before Cinema
  • 2. An Industry Begins
  • 3. Growth and Diversification
  • Part II : The Golden Age of the Silent Film
  • 4. Decline and Mutation
  • 5. The Mental and the Physical
  • 6. The Commercial and the Esoteric
  • Part III : The Golden Age of the Sound Cinema
  • 7. An Unexpected Upheaval
  • 8. Art and Entertainment in the Sound Film
  • 9. Politics, Poetics, and the Cinema
  • Part IV : A New Kind of Cinema
  • 10. War and Occupation
  • 11. Liberation-Change and Continuity
  • 12. An Alternative Film Culture
  • Part V : The Nouvelle Vague and After
  • 13. Fourth Wave
  • 14. Filmmaking at the Margins
  • 15. Winds of Change Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index