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The French Film Musical (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501329807)
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Phil Powrie
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xLike many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical.
The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.
Author: Phil Powrie, Marie Cadalanu
ISBN-10: 1501329804
ISBN-13: 9781501329807
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2020
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.
Author: Phil Powrie, Marie Cadalanu
ISBN-10: 1501329804
ISBN-13: 9781501329807
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2020
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Phil Powrie
xPhil Powrie is Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. He was the Chair of the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies 2014-2017 and General Editor of French Screen Studies (2000-2020).
Marie Cadalanu is an independent researcher working as a teacher in a lyc馥 in the Paris, France area.Recently Viewed Products
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