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

Record Details:

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 #:
00022
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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movement is seen as beginning around 1919 or 1920, nhitting its peak in 1923, and becoming effectively dispersed by 1924. But the historians who have made these claims have gathered so little evidence and have made so few distinctions and qualifications in the framing of these claims (e.g., the meaning of "subjective" film style) that we can hardly judge whether their account of the movement is valid or not. My study will show that while some of these assumptions are not supportable (e.g., the assumption that the movement ended in 1924), most are valid. In very general terms, previous historians are correct in assuming a fundamental unity in the Impressionist movement. I shall go further, however: by examining the activities, films, and theory of the movement more closely ‘than previous historians have done, I shall illuminate the movement in more detail than previous scholars have. In contradistinetion to previous work, then, this Study will concern itself with defining the homogeneity of the Impressionist movement. Biographical material will be used only when it contributes to establishing common traits of the members. It can be argued that I am blurring individual differences. The aforementioned historians, however, have made us well aware of such indi vidual differences; what we need now is a demonstration 6