Georges Franju
1st Edition
Published on 4. January 2019
192 pages
978-1-5261-4145-3 (ISBN)
Description
'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967.
Born in 1912, but only enjoying his real debut as a director in 1948 with his notorious documentary about Parisian abattoirs 'Le Sang des betes', Franju went on to make thirteen more courts metrages and eight longs metrages, including his horror classic 'Les Yeux sans visage'. Ince takes a new approach to Franju's films, investigating the areas of genre and gender, and grouping the films thematically rather than chronologically. A chapter on Franju's cinematic aesthetics offers a new synthesis of existing writings, combined with the author's responses to the films. A full introduction and conclusion set Franju's directorial career in the context of his lifelong commitment to France's cinema institutions.
'Georges Franju' will be essential reading on Franju, and of great interest to researchers, academics and students in film studies -- .
Born in 1912, but only enjoying his real debut as a director in 1948 with his notorious documentary about Parisian abattoirs 'Le Sang des betes', Franju went on to make thirteen more courts metrages and eight longs metrages, including his horror classic 'Les Yeux sans visage'. Ince takes a new approach to Franju's films, investigating the areas of genre and gender, and grouping the films thematically rather than chronologically. A chapter on Franju's cinematic aesthetics offers a new synthesis of existing writings, combined with the author's responses to the films. A full introduction and conclusion set Franju's directorial career in the context of his lifelong commitment to France's cinema institutions.
'Georges Franju' will be essential reading on Franju, and of great interest to researchers, academics and students in film studies -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Illustrations, black & white
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-4145-3 (9781526141453)
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Kate Ince is Senior Lecturer in French and Gender Studies at the University of Birmingham -- .
Content
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Documenting modernity: Franju's cinema in the age of the 'court metrage'
2. Beyond 'cinema fantastique': The genres of Franju's 'longs metrages'
3. 'Mise en scene' and the art of the real: Franju's cinematic aesthetics
4. Surviving the reign of the father: Gender, the family and eroticism
Conclusion
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index -- .
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Documenting modernity: Franju's cinema in the age of the 'court metrage'
2. Beyond 'cinema fantastique': The genres of Franju's 'longs metrages'
3. 'Mise en scene' and the art of the real: Franju's cinematic aesthetics
4. Surviving the reign of the father: Gender, the family and eroticism
Conclusion
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index -- .
