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portada Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control (Wisconsin Film Studies)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Preface by
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.2 x 15.4 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.48 kg.
ISBN13
9780299339807
Edition No.
1
Categories

Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control (Wisconsin Film Studies)

Christine Leteux (Author) · Bertrand Tavernier (Preface by) · University of Wisconsin Press · Hardcover

Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control (Wisconsin Film Studies) - Leteux, Christine ; Tavernier, Bertrand

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Synopsis "Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control (Wisconsin Film Studies) "

From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven employed some of the greatest French actors and most prestigious directors of the time, including Maurice Tourneur, Henri Decoin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Marcel Carné. Using recently opened archival documents, including reams of testimony from the épuration (purification) hearings conducted shortly after the war, Christine Leteux has produced the most authoritative and complete history of the company and its impact on the French film industry--both during the war and after. She captures the wide range of responses to the firm from those who were eager to work for a company whose ideology matched their own, to others who reluctantly accepted contracts out of necessity, to those who abhorred the company but felt compelled to participate in order to protect family members from Nazi reprisals. She examines not only the formation and management of Continental Films but also the personalities involved, the fraught and often deadly political circumstances of the period, the critical reception of the films, and many of the more notorious and controversial events. As Bertrand Tavernier explains in his foreword, Leteux overturns many of the preconceptions and clichés that have come to be associated with Continental Films. Published to rave reviews in French and translated by the author into English, this work shatters expectations and will reinvigorate study of a lesser-known but significant period of French film history.

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