The social architecture of French cinema, 1929-1939 /
Margaret C. Flinn.
- 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations.
- Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 34 .
- Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 34. .
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography: pages 228-230.
Introduction: An architecture of social being -- The spatial constitution of 1930s documentary -- Rene Clair's city views: realism and Studio Paris -- Intertext and political margins in Jean Renoir's Boudu Sauve des Eaux -- Traversing built history in architectural documentaries -- Flaneuses and the unmaking of place -- The crowd as new monumentality during the popular front -- Epilogue: Poetic realism as spatial fable.
9781781385975
Motion pictures--History--France--20th century. Architecture and society--France. Motion pictures--Social aspects--France.