French Costume Drama of the 1950s Fashioning Politics in Film
| Author/creator | Hayward, Susan Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bristol : Intellect, Limited Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] |
| Description | 480 p. ill 09.000 x 07.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">When political and civil unrest threatened France’s social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth century, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon and the Belle Époque. Film critics, however, have routinely dismissed this period of French cinema, overlooking a very important period of political cultural history.<i>French Costume Drama of the 1950s</i>redresses this balance, exploring a diverse range of films including Guitry’s<i>Napoléon</i>(1955), Vernay’s<i>Le Comte de Monte Cristo</i>(1943), and Becker’s<i>Casque d’Or</i>(1952) to expose the political cultural paradox between nostalgia for a lost past and the drive for modernization.</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781841503189 |
| ISBN | 1841503185 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781841503189 |
| Stock number | 00065408 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |