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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 #:
00043
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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50 The growing Parisian film audience seems not to have been greatly curtailed even by the outbreak of World War I. Although documented attendance figures have apparently not survived, it is likely that the theatres continued to flourish, if only because they fulfilled a reportorial function: three or four wartime newsreels were released each week and at least one of them was included in every film program. 16 Moreover, film theatres for soldiers were opened in military encampments, numbering (according to Jeanne and Ford) no fewer than 800.17 There is also some evidence that the war even stimulated film attendance. "La vie a un goit intolérable,"18 recalled Eve Francis of her wartime experience, noting that by government decree theatres, music-halls, concert-halls, and film theatres were temporarily closed, with film theatres being the first to reopen. 19 More detailed is Colette's depiction in the spring of 1918 of a populace which longed for escape and could find it only in film theatres: Et plus la guerre durera, plus manqueront le sucre et le pain et le pétrole, plus il réclamera, pour Sa clientéle en vestons éliminés et en savates Spongieuses, du lusque et encore du lusque. Cette exigence, je ne me contenterai pas de l'expliquer banalement par la soif de superflu dont halettent tous le @6tres privés du nécéssaire. I1 faut en chercher la source dans l1'indigence progressive des théatres et des music-halls. Nous vivons depuis quatre ans dans une ombre grandissante. La lumiére