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A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide
Ramona Fotiade
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Description for A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide
Paperback. In this original guide to the film, Ramona Fotiade analyses in depth its production and reception, as well as its mise-en-scene and editing. Series: Cine-File French Film Guides. Num Pages: 128 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194.
One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de souffle (1960) has retained its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as Godard's earliest rendition of a set of thematic and stylistic motifs that would become his trademark. A Bout de souffle is now a cult film, propelled in part by the memorable coupling of its leading actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, whose story on screen seemed to portray the troubled love affair between French cinema and Hollywood. In this original guide to the film, ... Read more
One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de souffle (1960) has retained its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as Godard's earliest rendition of a set of thematic and stylistic motifs that would become his trademark. A Bout de souffle is now a cult film, propelled in part by the memorable coupling of its leading actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, whose story on screen seemed to portray the troubled love affair between French cinema and Hollywood. In this original guide to the film, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Cine-File French Film Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780765099
SKU
V9781780765099
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About Ramona Fotiade
Ramona Fotiade is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. She has written widely on Surrealist and experimental cinema and is the author of Pictures of the Mind: Surrealist Photography and Film (2013).
Reviews for A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide
"Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve." - Dudley Andrew