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Title: The Transparent Illusion

The Transparent Illusion

Image and Ideology in French Text and Film

by Rebecca Pauly (Author)
©2003 Others IX, 496 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Ars Interpretandi , Volume 3

Summary

This unique study interprets forty major French films, their texts and intertexts, analyzing them both as windows on their subject, projections of the imagination, and as frames or mirrors reflecting the cultural contexts that produced them. They are grouped in three major categories, foregrounding their relationship to history, literature or the filmmaking process itself, in ascending order of opacity and modernity. This much needed work offers not only comparative cultural perspectives on French text and film but also a better understanding of the poetics of image and ideology.

Details

Pages
IX, 496
Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820419305
Language
English
Keywords
Francophonic avantgarde french film drama Cinema French Cinema
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1993, 2003. IX, 496 pp.

Biographical notes

Rebecca Pauly (Author)

The Author: Rebecca Pauly is professor of French and Italian language, literature, and film at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. cum laude from Smith College, her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and her Doctorate in Modern Languages from Middlebury College in Vermont. In addition to this book, she has published a study on the autobiographic voice, Le Berceau et la bibliothèque, and numerous articles on literature and film in professional journals. Her current projects include video documentaries on France and Italy that she has shot and edited, with accompanying course materials.

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