The French cinema book / Edited by Michael Temple and Michael Witt.

First edition: 2004

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- .- PART ONE: 1890-1920.- 1. PEOPLE: The Men and Women Who Made French Cinema by Richard Abel.- 2. BUSINESS: The Birth of the Industry by Laurent Le Forestier.- 3. TECHNOLOGY: Innovation, Standardisation and Commercialisation in Early Film Technology by Laurent Mannoni.- 4. FORMS: The Shifting Boundaries of Art and Industry by Ian Christie.- 5. REPRESENTATIONS: Our Little Planet by Teresa Castro.- 6. SPECTATORS: The Cinemising Process: Film-Going in the Silent Era by Elizabeth Ezra.- 7. DEBATES: Early Developments in Film-Thinking by Monica Dall’Asta.- .- PART TWO: 1920-50.- 8. PEOPLE: Migration and Exile in the Classical Period by Alastair Phillips.- 9. BUSINESS: Anarchy and Order in the French Film Industry by Colin Crisp.- 10. TECHNOLOGY: Plant, Imported Technologies and Film Style by Charles O’Brien.- 11. FORMS: The Place and Desire of Avant-Garde and Experimental Forms by Jennifer Wild.- 12. FORMS: The Art of Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Classical French Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau.- 13. REPRESENTATIONS: The Geography and Topography of French Cinema by Keith Reader.- 14. REPRESENTATIONS: Gender Representations in French Fiction Films by Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier.- 15. REPRESENTATIONS: Region, Colony, and Nation in French Documentary Films by Alison J. Murray Levine.- 16. SPECTATORS: In the Dark: Looking for the French Film Public by Michael Temple and Muriel Tinel-Temple.- 17. DEBATES: Trends and Developments in Film Criticism and Theory from the 1920s to the 1940s by Monica Dall’Asta.- .- PART THREE: 1950-80.- 18. PEOPLE: Film-Making as a Collaborative Activity: The Contribution of Cinematographers, Screenwriters and Actors by Alison Smith.- 19. BUSINESS: The End of a Golden Era for the Industry by Laurent Creton and Anne Jäckel.- 20. TECHNOLOGY: Technological Innovation and Change from the Mainstream to the Margins by Michael Witt.- 21. FORMS: The Diversity of Film-Making Forms and Practices during the Thirty Glorious Years by Michael Temple and Michael Witt.- 22. FORMS: Forms of Resistance and Revolt: `We Are in Agreement with All that has Struggled, and is Struggling still, since the World Began’ by Nicole Brenez.- 23. REPRESENTATIONS: A Camera of One’s Own: Video in Feminist Hands by Hélène Fleckinger.- 24. REPRESENTATIONS: Material Turns: French Cinema and the Construction of Everyday Life by Sam Di Iorio.- 25. REPRESENTATIONS: A Greater France? French Cinema from the Colonial to the Postcolonial Period by Sébastien Denis.- 26. SPECTATORS: Going Back Home by Franck Le Gac.- 27. DEBATES: Bazin and His Legacies by Daniel Morgan.- .- Part Four: 1980-PRESENT.- 28. PEOPLE: The Human Factor: Producers, Directors, Actors by Jean-Michel Frodon.- 29. BUSINESS: A Business Model under Threat? by Laurent Creton and Anne Jäckel.- 30. TECHNOLOGY: `Delay the Start to Hasten the Finish’: French Exhibitors and the Digital Revolution by Kira Kitsopanidou.- 31. FORMS: The Documentary Renaissanceby Michael Witt.- 32. FORMS: From Cinema to Film Arts by Nicole Brenez.- 33. REPRESENTATIONS: Fiction, Documentary and the Political by Martin O’Shaughnessy.- 34. REPRESENTATIONS: Representations of Ethnic Minorities in French Cinema since 1980 by Will Higbee.- 35. REPRESENTATIONS: From Gay Visibility to Queer In/Visibilities by James S. Williams.- 36. SPECTATORS: The Spectator as Expert – French Cinephilia Today by Laurent Jullier and Jean-Marc Leveratto.- 37. DEBATES: Philosophy and Film: Re-Framing the Cinematic Century by Hunter Vaughan.- .- Further Reading.- Selected Online Resources.- Index