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Marcel Pagnol


Marcel Pagnol


French Film Directors Series

von: Brett Bowles, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

24,99 €

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 11.01.2019
ISBN/EAN: 9781526141644
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 280

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Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career, the first ever published in English, highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context. In addition to reassessing the converted playwright’s controversial prioritisation of speech over image, the book juxtaposes Pagnol’s sunny rural melodramas with the dark, urban variety of poetic realism practised by influential peers such as Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné.

In his penchant for outdoor location shooting and ethnographic authenticity, as well as his stubborn attachment to independent, artisanal production values, Pagnol served as a precursor to the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism, inspiring the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini.
First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director.
List of Plates
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Pagnol as auteur
1. The emergence of a dramatic author
2. Pagnol, Paramount and Marius
3. Cinématurgie revisited
4. Another poetic realism
5. Pagnol and the French cinema industry
Epilogue: Pagnol’s legacy
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index
Brett Bowles is Associate Professor of French Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington
Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career, the first ever published in English, highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context. In addition to reassessing the converted playwright’s controversial prioritisation of speech over image, the book juxtaposes Pagnol’s sunny rural melodramas with the dark, urban variety of poetic realism practised by influential peers such as Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné.

In his penchant for outdoor location shooting and ethnographic authenticity, as well as his stubborn attachment to independent, artisanal production values, Pagnol served as a precursor to the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism, inspiring the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini.

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