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French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film
- Title
- French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film / Susan Hayward.
- Author
- Hayward, Susan, 1945-
- Publication
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- 480 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- French costume drama of the nineteen fifties
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-457) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Contexts. Introduction -- Setting out the terrain: genre and history -- Setting out the terrain: technologies, technicians and stars -- pt. 2. Fairytales, foxy women and swashbuckling heroes. Costume drama from late-medieval to the eighteenth century: an overview -- Mysterious microcosms: three 'fairytales' -- Foxy women: queens, mistresses and minxes -- Swashbuckling heroes -- pt. 3. Representing history: epics, courtesans and master narratives 1796-1888. Setting the terrain: France 1796-1888 -- Representing history: 1796-1814 Napoleon Bonaparte/Napoleon I -- Representing the social: restoration-July Monarchy (1814-1848) -- Epic grandeur: part one, philanthropists -- Epic grandeur: part two, avengers -- From the Second to the Third Republic: innovation, corruption and new identities -- The Second Empire in the pink: violets, waltzes, and the pursuit of knowledge -- The Second Empire in the raw: Martine Carol's celebrity courtesans -- From Empire to Republic: a modernized France emerging -- Censoring the classics: Bel-Ami, Louis Daquin (1954; released in France 1957) -- pt. 4. Belle Epoque mania: Paris, the provinces and biopics. Belle Epoque films: an overview -- Parisian society of the Belle Epoque through film -- Truth and lies and the pursuit of marriage: love intrigues outside Paris -- Making li(v)es: Belle Epoque biopics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: French costume drama of the 1950s -- Index.
- Call Number
- MFL 11-3749
- ISBN
- 9781841503189 (pbk.)
- 1841503185 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 457149504
- Author
- Hayward, Susan, 1945-
- Title
- French costume drama of the 1950s : fashioning politics in film / Susan Hayward.
- Imprint
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-457) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 11-3749