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French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (December 1974)

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Title:
French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style
Date:
December 1974
Publisher:
University of Iowa
Volume:
French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (Dissertation, 1974)
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema
Format:
dissertations
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Doctoral dissertation entitled, "French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style," by film scholar David Bordwell. Submitted to the University of Iowa in 1974. Document is scanned from the David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson papers, archived at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Date Added:
May 23, 2024
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aspects of a unified avant-garde movement. As we shall see, this unity arises not simply because the movement Operated at all these levels, but also because these levels are significantly related, mutually reinforcing. The film theory grows, both logically and chronologically, out of a specific polemical position; the film style affects the film theory and vice-versa; and so on. The division of tasks, then, runs this way: rivet) te shal) examine these three strata in turn, by means of a historical account of the change in cinema's cultural status, an analytical examination of the ovenehed s theoretical assumptions, and a critical examination of its idioSyncratic film style. To avoid suggesting that one Stratum as a whole determined another level as a whole, I shall conclude by examining the three strata "vertically" by a division into periods that will indicate the interaction among various levels. on the whole, I seek to clarify the significance of the Impressionist movement in film history. To use the term "Impressionism" is already to raise a question. Although the movement did not name itself and at the time was usually called simply the "avant-garde," the label "French Impressionism" is still not quite arbitrary. One member of the movement, Germaine