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 #:
00024
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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11 expect that all of previous historians' generalizations will be found to be accurate, we can at least hope that our conclusions will establish a body of claims more fully Supported than those of past research in this area. Initial Distinctions For purposes of this study, the Impressionist movement may be seen as comprising a coherent set of cultural activities, theoretical writings, and films emanating from a group of individuals. Through cultural activities, theoretical assumptions, and stylistic choices, these individuals participated in the movement. Virtually all accounts of the movement agree as to its "membership," and I have followed contemporary writers and previous historians in defining the group. Central members of the movement include film-makers who were also writers, theorists,, or cultural activists. (Louis Delluc, Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L'Herbier, and René Clair) and two theorists who were also cultural activists (Riccioto Canudo and Léon Moussinac). More peripheral members of the group include theorists (Elie Fauré), critics (Pierre Porte, Paul Ramain), cultural activists (theatre owners like Jean Tedesco, organizers like Charles Léger), and film-makers who worked in the Impressionist style (Alexandre Volkoff, Dmitri