The French Cinema Book

Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- .- PART ONE: 1890-1920.- 1. PEOPLE: The Men and Women Who Made French Cinema by Richard Abel.- 2. BUSINESS: The Birth of the Industry by Laurent Le Forestier.- 3. TECHNOLOGY: Innovation, Standardisation and Commercialisation in Early Film Technology by Laurent Mannoni.- 4. FORMS: The Shifting Boundaries of Art and Industry by Ian Christie.- 5. REPRESENTATIONS: Our Little Planet by Teresa Castro.- 6. SPECTATORS: The Cinemising Process: Film-Going in the Silent Era by Elizabeth Ezra.- 7. DEBATES: Early Developments in Film-Thinking by Monica Dall'Asta.- .- PART TWO: 1920-50.- 8. PEOPLE: Migration and Exile in the Classical Period by Alastair Phillips.- 9. BUSINESS: Anarchy and Order in the French Film Industry by Colin Crisp.- 10. TECHNOLOGY: Plant, Imported Technologies and Film Style by Charles O'Brien.- 11. FORMS: The Place and Desire of Avant-Garde and Experimental Forms by Jennifer Wild.- 12. FORMS: The Art of Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Classical French Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau.- 13. REPRESENTATIONS: The Geography and Topography of French Cinema by Keith Reader.- 14. REPRESENTATIONS: Gender Representations in French Fiction Films by Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier.- 15. REPRESENTATIONS: Region, Colony, and Nation in French Documentary Films by Alison J. Murray Levine.- 16. SPECTATORS: In the Dark: Looking for the French Film Public by Michael Temple and Muriel Tinel-Temple.- 17. DEBATES: Trends and Developments in Film Criticism and Theory from the 1920s to the 1940s by Monica Dall'Asta.- .- PART THREE: 1950-80.- 18. PEOPLE: Film-Making as a Collaborative Activity: The Contribution of Cinematographers, Screenwriters and Actors by Alison Smith.- 19. BUSINESS: The End of a Golden Era for the Industry by Laurent Creton and Anne Jäckel.- 20. TECHNOLOGY: Technological Innovation and Change from the Mainstream to the Margins by Michael Witt.- 21. FORMS: The Diversity of Film-Making Forms and Practices

Michael Temple is Reader in Film and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Director of Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the Essay Film Festival. He is the author of Jean Vigo (2005), and has co-edited several books about Jean-Luc Godard, as well as Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology (2014).



Michael Witt is Professor of Cinema and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has published widely on French film history in journals such as Screen, Trafic and New Left Review and co-curated seasons of French experimental cinema, documentary, and the work of Jean-Luc Godard for institutions such as Tate Modern and BFI Southbank. He is the co-editor of For Ever Godard (2004) and Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006), and the author of Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013).