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9780851703657

Enfants du Paradis

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  • ISBN13:

    9780851703657

  • ISBN10:

    0851703658

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-02-26
  • Publisher: British Film Institute
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Summary

This text looks at one of the masterpieces of French cinema, made under great difficulties during the German occupation in World War II, and set in the world of nineteenth-century Parisian theatre.

Author Biography

Jill Forbes is Ashley Watkins Professor of French at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. 7
Introductionp. 9
Genesis of the Filmp. 11
An Alternative Cultural Strategyp. 12
History and Fictionp. 18
Carne, Barrault, Prevert - Les veritables auteurs du crimep. 26
The Theatre in Les Enfants du paradisp. 41
The Performer as Hero: Frederick and Debureaup. 45
Theatre as Memory and Repetitionp. 47
Gender and Genre: The Politics of Identityp. 53
The Viewer from Flaneur to Voyeurp. 63
The World Turned Upside Downp. 69
Notesp. 73
Creditsp. 76
Bibliographyp. 78
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