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CAMION BLANC
Phénomène du rock sur 33 tours, Elvis Presley exécuta aussi parfois de façon magistrale 33… tours de piste sur pellicule en technicolor ! – excepté pour son 1er film, Love Me Tender (Le Cavalier du crépuscule), car tourné en noir et blanc. « Gras, mou, fade, inexpressif » (sic), l’acteur Elvis ne cessa de subir les assauts de la critique qui ne le ménagea guère tandis que ses millions de fans firent un triomphe à la plupart de ses films, lesquels, soit dit en passant, rapportèrent souvent de quoi largement renflouer les caisses des grandes majors compagnies d’Hollywood (Metro Goldwin Mayer, 20th Century Fox ou Paramount) qui se disputèrent l’exclusivité de ses contra...
Brigitte Bardot
Actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot had a stunning career in France and America in the mid-20th century. Since the 1970s, she has dedicated her life to the welfare and protection of animals, with much personal involvement. In this book the author makes the case that far from being a pretty face or a spotlight grabber, Bardot was an accomplished actress and has always been an intelligent, sensitive individual. Chapters acquaint readers with her Paris childhood and her rebellious coming of age in a Catholic bourgeois family, who disapproved when she appeared on the cover of Elle magazine and was offered a screen test. The book examines her years in film (with careful analysis of her films) and also covers her tumultuous personal life, including suicide attempts, and the beginnings of her interest in animal protection. Final chapters detail her efforts in worldwide animal welfare activism, including the work of her own international foundation.
Chanson
En France, tout finit par des chansons' is the well-known phrase which sums up the importance of chanson for the French. A song tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, chanson is part of the texture of everyday life in France - a part of the national identity and a barometer of popular taste. In this first study of chanson in English, Peter Hawkins examines the background to the genre and the difficulties in defining what is and what is not chanson. The focus then moves to the development of the singer-songwriter of chanson from 1880 to the present day. This period saw the emergence of national icons from Aristide Bruant at the end...
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Marcel Pagnol
Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career, now available in paperback, highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context. In addition to reassessing the converted playwright’s controversial prioritisation of speech over image, the book juxtaposes Pagnol’s sunny rural melodramas with the dark, urban variety of poetic realism practised by influential peers such as Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné. In his penchant for outdoor location shooting and ethnographic authenticity, as well as his stubborn attachment to independent, artisanal production values, Pagnol served as a precursor to the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism, inspiring the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini.
Popular Music Studies: Select I
The first authoritative guide to scholarly literature on popular music of the world includes some 8,300 entries covering every non-biographical aspect of the field, including genres, the industry, social and cultural contexts, musical practices, geographical locations, and theory and method. The bibliography serves as an announcement of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Carmen on Screen
A filmographic and bibliographic guide to the screen adaptations of the story of Carmen. 'Carmen' on Screen is a filmographic and bibliographic guide for scholars interested in the different versions of the story of Carmen in film since her original appearance in Mérimée's novella and its operatic adaptation byBizet. With over 110 screen versions between 1894 and 2005, it is the most adapted narrative in film. The volume offers: chronological listings of 82 feature films with credits and annotations of scholarly articles, selected citations of reviews and news articles, and listings of more general works on film adaptations of opera; works on the novella or on the opera; and, finally, lists of works on the 12 major female and 8 major male stars in the 82feature films. ANN DAVIES lectures in Spanish Studies and Film at the University of Newcastle; PHIL POWRIE is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle.
Didn't You Used to be Depardieu?
Grossvogel (comparative literature and romance studies, Cornell U.) dissects once again the oft-studied love-hate relationship between the US and France by contrasting a number of original French films and their American remakes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Stars and Stardom in French Cinema
French cinema is second only to Hollywood in the number of its movie stars who have emerged to achieve international fame. France is, in fact, arguably the only country other than the United States to have an international "star system." Yet these glamorous and charismatic stars differ from their U.S. counterparts in that they maintain more freedom to control their own images and often straddle both mainstream and auteur cinema.Ginette Vincendeau, a leading authority on French cinema, analyzes the phenomenon of French film stardom and provides brilliant in-depth studies of the major popular stars of the French cinema: Max Linder, Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Louis de FunFs, Je...
Alain Delon
Ha lavorato con i più grandi registi, ha interpretato alcuni dei più grandi capolavori della settima arte, ha avuto al suo fianco le donne più affascinanti del globo. Ovvero Alain Delon, un'icona, un simbolo, un volto che ha segnato indelebilmente il mondo del cinema e influenzato mode e tendenze di intere generazioni.
