French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929

by Richard Abel

Book Overview

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr? Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069100062X
• ISBN13: 9780691000626
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"