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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 #:
00039
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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Edouard Poulain, who cried out against films' immoral effects on youth in such books as Le Cinéma, Ecole du Vice et du Crime (Besancon, 1918); yet in the 1920's film screenings beca:ire routine in many French schools and ciné-clubs, catering to a young audience, sprang up throughout Paris and the provinces. We cannot attribute the rise in cinema's status solely to the Impressionist film-makers and writers, but clearly their role was a major one. For various reasons, from around 1913 to 1920, the cinema was important not only to the popular audience but also to an intellectual elite, and from the latter's interest certain polemicists and cultural activists could generate a new attitude toward film: the attitude that film could be a distinct art, Film and French Avant-Garde Artists The Impressionist campaign for the artistic status of cinema was able to succeed partly because its aesthetic principles confirmed certain already-existing attitudes. To discover these attitudes, it is necessary first to suggest the extent to which certain artists began seeing the cinema as one of the most important popular arts. Two factors are significantly revealing: the turning of poets to cinema as a source of both subjects and techniques and the wide praise which intellectuals