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Child of Paradise: Marcel Carn? and the Golden Age of French Cinema by Edward Ba
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- ISBN-13
- 9780674865594
- Book Title
- Child of Paradise
- ISBN
- 9780674865594
- Series
- Harvard Film Studies
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
- Publication Name
- Child of Paradise : Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Film / General, General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
- Item Weight
- 34.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 474 Pages
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Marcel Carne symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished almost completely to the American film industry. The first critical biography of this director of classic films, including the epic historical romance "Les Enfants du paradis" (Children of Paradise), relates the saga of Carne s meteoric rise in the 1930s and his decline from critical grace after the war. Between 1937 and 1945 Carne directed a number of works that are now part of France s cultural patrimony, most notably "Le Quai des Brumes" (1938), "LeJour se leve" (1939), "Les Visiteurs du soir" (1942), and the best known, "Les Enfants du paradis" (1945). The artistic merit of these films is widely acknowledged; their significance, however, is not solely aesthetic. To know Carne and his films is to know how cinematic art responded to social and political events to the period of French history that witnessed the Popular Front, the Front s demise, the fall of France, and the Occupation. Edward Baron Turk discloses the incongruities between the director s aesthetic of poetic realism and his professed leftist sympathies; he situates Carne s questionable stance and activities during the Occupation within the broader context of an artist s ethical responsibilities in times of war; and he examines the ramifications of Carne s censure during the postwar purges for the director s subsequent fortunes. Turk s use of the psychoanalytic concepts of androgyny, masochism, fetishism, and primal scene allows us to understand more clearly how Carne thought and worked. Turk also addresses the representations and maskings of homosexuality in Carne s films and the extent to which they have colored film history s often ambivalent assessments of the director. The centerpiece of the book is an extended analysis of what is arguably the most famous and beloved of all French films, "Les Enfants du paradis," scripted by the poet-screenwriter Jacques Prevert. The book draws on unpublished correspondence from, among others, Jean Cocteau, Francois Truffaut, and Simone Signoret, and on interviews by the author with Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Mme. Jacques Prevert, Pierre Prevert, Claude Renoir, Alexander Trauner, Truffaut, and Carne himself. This portrait of Carne thus becomes the portrait of an age, a great age in the history of French cinema, albeit a tragic age in the history of France.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674865596
ISBN-13
9780674865594
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Child of Paradise : Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
Series
Harvard Film Studies
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
474 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
34.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
6
Lc Classification Number
Pn1998.3.C37t87 2013
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
791.4302330924
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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