
Marcel Carne
Jonathan Driskell(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 30. May 2012
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7190-7997-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, 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 Prevert, include such well-known works as Le Quai des brumes, Le Jour se leve and Les Enfants du paradis. As the first book to be written on Carne 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. -- .
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. -- .
Reviews / Votes
Jonathan Driskell contributes appreciably to a fleshing-out of Carne's later career, by way of succinct but well-contextualized analyses of his less familiar films., Keith Reader, University of London Institute in Paris, French Studies, vol 67, no 2, April 2013, May 2013 -- .More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-7997-9 (9780719079979)
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Jonathan Driskell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Sunway Campus (Malaysia) -- .
Content
1. Marcel Carne's career and reception: the highs and lows
2. Poetic realism
3. The Second World War and its aftermath
4. Post-war cinema and the tradition of quality
5. The French new wave
6. The end of a long career
Index -- .
2. Poetic realism
3. The Second World War and its aftermath
4. Post-war cinema and the tradition of quality
5. The French new wave
6. The end of a long career
Index -- .