Williams Larson Alan (11 results)

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Copyright © 1992 by the President & Fell. 458 + xii + pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Synopsis: Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895-the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris-to the present day. Alan Williams offers a unique synthesis of history, biography, aesthetics and film theory. He brings to life all of the major directors, setting before us the cultures from which they emerged, and sheds new light on the landmark films they created. He distills what is historically and artistically unique in each of their careers and reveals what each artist has in common with the forebears and heirs of the craft.Within the larger story of French cinema, Williams examines the treasury of personal expression, social commentary, and aesthetic exploration that France has produced so consistently and exported so well. It is the tale of an industry rife with crises, and Williams offers a superb narrative of the economic, political, and social forces that have shaped its century-long history. He provides biographical sketches of filmmakers from the early pioneers of the silent era such as Louis Lumiere and Alice Guy to modern directors such as Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, and Francois Truffaut. Some of their careers, he shows, exemplify the significant contributions individuals made to the development of French fllmmaking; others yield illuminating evidence of the problems and opportunities of a whole generation of filmmakers. Throughout, he presents critical analyses of significant films, from The Assassination of the Duc de Guise (1908) to works by the post-nouvelle vague directors.Williams captures the formal and stylistic developments of film in France over nearly one hundred years. Free of cant and jargon, Republic of Images is the best general account available of the rich interplay of film, filmmaker, and society. It will delight both general reader and student, as well as the viewer en route to the video store. David Foss & Annamarie McMahon (Cover Design); 'Les Quatre Cents Coups' (The 400 Blows), Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive (Cover Photo) (illustrator).…

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1st edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-440) and index. Contents; The cinema before cinema -- An industry begins -- Growth and diversification -- Decline and mutation -- The mental and the physical -- The commercial and the esoteric -- An unexpected upheaval -- Art and entertainment in the sound film -- Politics, poetics, and the cinema -- War and occupation -- Liberation -- change and continuity -- An alternative film culture -- Fourth wave -- Filmmaking at the margins -- Winds of change. Subjects; Motion pictures France History. Motion pictures. Films. Performing arts. Film criticism. Silent films France History. History. 1 Kg.…

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1st edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-440) and index. Contents; The cinema before cinema -- An industry begins -- Growth and diversification -- Decline and mutation -- The mental and the physical -- The commercial and the esoteric -- An unexpected upheaval -- Art and entertainment in the sound film -- Politics, poetics, and the cinema -- War and occupation -- Liberation -- change and continuity -- An alternative film culture -- Fourth wave -- Filmmaking at the margins -- Winds of change. Subjects; Motion pictures France History. Motion pictures. Films. Performing arts. Film criticism. Silent films France History. History. 1 Kg.…

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Original-Pappband. 169 Seiten. Befriedigender Erhaltungszustand. Geringe Lagerspuren. Mit Anstreichungen. In englischer Sprache. 9780405129247 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 5.