Grande Illusion, La : French Film Guide.
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Grande Illusion, La : French Film Guide.
Yazar:
O'Shaughnessy, Martin.
ISBN:
9780857713049
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (135 pages)
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. Contexts -- A director and his two careeers -- Cast and creative personnel -- Historical and political contexts -- Notes -- 2. Genesis, evolution, preparation -- A long gestation -- The evolving script -- The plagiarism case -- The set -- Notes -- 3. Analysis -- Structure -- Motifs -- Film style and group dynamics -- Shooting in deep time -- Close analysis: form and meaning -- Misrepresenting the war? -- Notes -- 4. Reception -- Pre-war triumph -- Post-war controversy -- Serene mastery? -- Anti-Semitism? -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Renoir's films -- Appendix 2: Cast and creative personnel -- Appendix 3: The evolving script -- Appendix 4: Select bibliography.
Özet:
Directed by the great Jean Renoir, 'La Grande Illusion' (1937) is the finest of all anti-war films and a cinematic masterwork. Other films oppose war by showing its horror. Renoir's film holds the horror at arm's length to give us a clearer view of it. A prisoner-of-war drama, with brilliant performances from leading stars of its period, including Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, the film combines popular appeal with a formal brilliance that allows a complex examination of how classes, nations and genders relate to one another. _x000D_ _x000D_ In this comprehensive and readable companion to the film, Martin O'Shaughnessy underlines its sharp intelligence. He shows how, not content to register the world as it is, the film plays off competing historical possibilities against each other, facing the public with their responsibility to shape the future. Locating the film in the context of Renoir's career, O'Shaughnessy discusses its use of stars, production history, set design and reception. He compares known drafts of the film with a previously undiscovered story outline, casting important new light on its genesis. Stressing how it spoke to its times, he also demonstrates how it speaks to us now._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 'Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve.' - Dudley Andrew.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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