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Title: MARCEL PAGNOL
By: Brett Bowles
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0719073812
ISBN 13: 9780719073816
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Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 January, 2012
Series: French Film Directors Series
Pages: 280
Description: First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .
Synopsis: Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career, the first ever published in English, highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context. In addition to reassessing the converted playwright's controversial prioritisation of speech over image, the book juxtaposes Pagnol's sunny rural melodramas with the dark, urban variety of poetic realism practised by influential peers such as Jean Renoir and Marcel Carne.In his penchant for outdoor location shooting and ethnographic authenticity, as well as his stubborn attachment to independent, artisanal production values, Pagnol served as a precursor to the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism, inspiring the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini. -- .
Illustrations: Illustrations, black & white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Returns: Returnable
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