PDF⋙ Marcel Carné (French Film Directors MUP) by Jonathan Driskell
Marcel Carné (French Film Directors MUP) by Jonathan Driskell Marcel Carné (French Film Directors MUP) by Jonathan Driskell PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carné, one of the great directors of the 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 Prévert, include such well known works as Le Quai des brumes, Le Jour se lève and Les Enfants du paradis. As the first book to be written on Carné 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...