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 #:
00081
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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68 interested in ciné-clubs as an access to otherwise unseeable films. Léon Moussinac and three associates went still further and founded Les Amis de Spartacus, a ecinéclub whose political as well as aesthetic interests focused on banned Soviet films. According to one historian, the club's first screening, on 15 March 1928, was such a success that the theatre could not accommodate the four thousand people who sought admittance.159 A similar deSire to evade censorship strictures motivated Jean Tedesco's proposal for a ciné-club with the goal of uniting an elite audience by means of private screenings of foreign films.151 By 1929, the ciné-club movement had succeeded. In Paris alone there were several: Le Tribune Libre, Le CinéClub de France, Les Amis du Spartacus, Le Club de L*Ecran, La Lanterne Magique, Le Phare Tournant,; L'Effort, ‘and Les Spectateurs d'Avant-Garde. Clubs were also founded in Nice, Agen, Montpellier, Marseille, Lyon, Reims, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Chalons, Alger, and Tours.52 Tt is not surprising that this many groups would they! in!'1929', unite to form La Fédération Franeaise du Ciné-Clubs which continued through the 1930's to the present. Thus within ten years, the activities of Delluc, Canudo, and their associates contributed to the creation of a large