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 #:
000147
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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134 87See Germaine Dulac, "Le Cinégraphie Intégrale," . in Marcel Lapierre, ed., Anthologie du Cinéma (Paris: La Nouvelle Edition, 1946), pp. 165-160. 88 paul Ramain is one of the few Impressionist theorists to use the motivic forms of musical econstruction as models for cinema, especially in ‘his analyses of La Roue, Der Mude Tod, and Metropolis as "symphonic" structures of plastic "themes." See "De la Construction Thématique des Films," Cinéa-Ciné pour Tous no. 44 (2 September 1925), 9-11, and “Metropolis,” Cinéa-Ciné pour Tous no. 91 (15 August 1927), 21-22, and Cinéa-Cine pour Tous no. 93 (15 September 1927), 21-24. 89 Abel Gance, La Beauté 4 Travers le Cinéma (Paris: Institut Général Psychologique, 1926), pp. 2-6. 90Léon Moussinac, "Du Rhythme Cinégraphique," Le Crapouillot (March 1923), reprinted in Le Crapouillot (November 1932), Pp). cOrees..coee also; Moussinac.; L. Age Ingrat du Cinéma (Paris: Editeurs Francais Reunis, 1967), PPwi (oror. J1René Clair, "Rhythme," Cahiers du Mois no. 1617 (19ea 4 5-16. 92Andre Bazin, "In Defense of Mixed Cinema," in What. Ta. Cineme?: vol... I,trans.by Hugh Gray (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 53-75. 7 5Morris Weitz, Philosophy of the Arts (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), ue ea Ohh. Lehmann, The Symbolist Aesthetic in France (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950), p. 47.