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Marcel Carné

Marcel Carné

Driskell, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: French Film Directors

Entertainment & Performing ArtsFilm StudiesFrench History

ISBN10: 1784992852
ISBN13: 9781784992859
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Newly available in paperback, this study provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carné, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of the 1930s. His films, a number of which were made in collaboration with the poet-turned-scriptwriter Jacques Prévert, include such well-known works as Le quai des brumes, Le jour se lève and Les enfants du paradis. As the first book to be written on Carné for a number of years, it offers a fresh perspective on his cinema, particularly through a re-examination of his post-war work - although many of these films were very popular and offer a fascinating insight into France at the time, they have, until now, largely been neglected.

Adopting a carefully crafted aesthetic, his films explore a tension between pessimism and entrapment on the one hand, and transcendence, idealised romantic love and a populist celebration of working-class life on the other. His career traversed key moments in French cinema, including poetic realism, the tradition of quality and the French New Wave, and spanned important historical moments such as the Popular Front of the 1930s, the Second World War and France's post-war modernisation.

This book will be of interest to scholars, students and film-lovers alike.

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