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 #:
000151
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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138 few works by film-makers who played little part in either cultural activities or theoretical disputation demanded inclusion in the style paradigm. As a result, the interplay of externally defined hypothesis and internally refined observations resulted in successive approximations which finally focused on a set of fifty films, of which thirty-five exhibited a stylistic homogeneity defined as the Impressionist style. From this group of thirty-five films come the elementary data for the paradigm; from the remaining fifteen films come pertinent contrasting data for comparison with the paradigm. (See Appendix A for a complete listing of films examined in this chapter.) Finally, to anticipate a point that will be discussed in Chapter V; this paradigm is restricted to a historically specific group of French films. There is the possibility, however, of regarding Impressionism as a more permanent and extensive stylistic trend in film history. Here I shall reserve the adjective “ImpresSionist" for French films of the stipulated period and style. Later, I will ‘propose: that "“Impressionistic" be used to apply to films from other times and places which possess similar stylistic traits.