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

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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 #:
00026
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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14 rhythm; examples would be Viking Eggeling's Symphonie Diagonale, Fernande Leger and Dudley Murphy's Ballet Mécanique, and Henri Chomette's Cing Minutes de Cinéma Pur. The concerns and works of this avant-garde have been sensitively examined in Standish Lawder's Structuralism and Movement in Experimental Film and Modern Art, 1896 The validity of the tripartite grouping of ImpresSionists, commercial directors, and makers of abstract films is further confirmed by evidence that the members of each group were themselves conscious of such divisions. Much Impressionist work was seen as explicit revolt against the commercial tradition. As a critic, Louis Dellue attacked the commonplaces of commercial filmmaking, pouring Sarcasm over the most respected figures and films of French studio production. Moguls like Pathé and Gaumont, performers like Bernhardt and Gabrielle Robinne, and directors like Feuillade and Antoine were dealt with bluntly and blisteringly. "Si j'écrivais tout le mal que je pense de la maison Pathe, i1 faudreit un certain nombre de volumes."15 of a Feuillade film he wrote: "Des amis mtont mené voir La Nouvelle Mission de Judex. Des amisoni4 Of Antoine's Les Fréres Corses he noted: