Thiher, Allen,  1941- <br/><br/>
The cinematic muse :  critical studies in the history of French cinema / 
Allen Thiher. 
 - Columbia :  University of Missouri Press,  1979. 
 - vi, 216 p., [8] leaves of plates :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 207-214. 
<br/><br/>[1.] The avant-garde: The impressionist avant-garde --  Surrealism's enduring bite: Un Chien andalou --  The surrealist film: Man Ray and the limits of metaphor --  Le Sang d'un Poéte: film as orphism --  [2.] In the wake of surrealism: From Entr'acte to a Nous la Liberté: René Clair and the order of farce --  Vigo's Zéro de conduite: surrealism and the myth of childhood --  [3.] Film and society: Jean Renoir and the mimesis of history --  Prévert and Carné's Le Jour se lève: proletarian tragedy --  [4.] Existentialist moment: Bresson's Un condamné à mort: the semiotics of grace --  The existential play in Truffaut's early films --  [5.] Postmodernism: L'Année dernière a Marienbad: the narration of narration --  Postmodern dilemmas: Godard's Alphaville and Deux ou trois choses que je sias d'elle --  Afterword: Is film a language? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0826202772 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--France.<br/>Películas cinematográficas--Francia <br/>Motion picture plays, French--History and criticism.<br/>Obras cinematográficas --Francia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1993.5  / T439c 1979 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43