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The social architecture of French cinema, 1929-1939 / Margaret C. Flinn.

By: Series: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 34.Publication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.Description: x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781781380338 (hbk.)
  • 1781380333 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.F7 F554 2014
Contents:
Introduction: An architecture of social being -- The spatial constitution of 1930s documentary -- René Clair's city views: realism and Studio Paris -- Intertext and political margins in Jean Renoir's Boudu Sauvé des Eaux -- Traversing built history in architectural documentaries -- Flâneuses and the unmaking of place -- The crowd as new monumentality during the popular front -- Epilogue: Poetic realism as spatial fable.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 228-230.

Introduction: An architecture of social being -- The spatial constitution of 1930s documentary -- René Clair's city views: realism and Studio Paris -- Intertext and political margins in Jean Renoir's Boudu Sauvé des Eaux -- Traversing built history in architectural documentaries -- Flâneuses and the unmaking of place -- The crowd as new monumentality during the popular front -- Epilogue: Poetic realism as spatial fable.

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