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Explores the complex film culture of 1930s France.

An exploration of French cinema from the introduction of sound to the beginning of the New Wave. The author re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic cinema, and re-presents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.

Colin Crisp is a leading scholar in French film history and author of The Classic French Cinema, 1930�60 (IUP, 1993) and Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929�39 (IUP, 2002).

Colin Crisp is a leading scholar in French film history and author of The Classic French Cinema, 1930�60 (IUP, 1993) and Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929�39 (IUP, 2002).

Here, for the first time in English, is a comprehensive analysis of EricRohmer's work. Rohmer, an enormously influential figure in shaping postwar realistfilm theory, and later in the development of the French New Wave, has been largelyignored in film studies, while others of the New Wave movements such as Truffaut andGodard have received considerable attention. In Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist, Crisp thoroughly examines Rohmer's films, pe...

We can usually expect something fresh and different to emerge fromAustralia, and this study is no exception." -- AmericanCinematographer"An important contribution to cinemahistory. . . especially impressive in its analysis of the French cinema industry, in terms of both mode of production and personnel, and in its analysis of the Frenchtechnological base." -- Richard AbelFrom 1930 to 1960, France produced some of the most famous films ever mad...