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Author Flinn, Margaret C., author.

Title The social architecture of French cinema, 1929-1939 / Margaret C. Flinn.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 244 pages .)
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Filmography
Series Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 34
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 34.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Summary This book provides a vital new reading of documentary and realist fiction film of the French 1930s that focuses on how these genres interlock their representations of urban spaces and places.
Contents Introduction: An architecture of social being -- The spatial constitution of 1930s documentary -- René Clair's city views: realism and Studio Paris -- Intertext and political margins in Jean Renoir's Boudu Sauvé des Eaux -- Traversing built history in architectural documentaries -- Flâneuses and the unmaking of place -- The crowd as new monumentality during the popular front -- Epilogue: Poetic realism as spatial fable.
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Subject Motion pictures -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Architecture and society -- France.
Architecture and society.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- France.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
France -- In motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Frankrike, 1930-t.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781781380338 1781380333
ISBN 9781781381571 (electronic book)
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1781385971 (electronic book)
9781781380338 (hardback)
1781380333 (hardback)