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Camera historica : the century in cinema
Title:
Camera historica : the century in cinema
Author:
Baecque, Antoine de, 1962-
ISBN:
9780231156516
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2012
Physical Description:
xv, 398 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series:
European perspectives
Series Title:
European perspectives
General Note:
Includes index
Contents:
Foreclosed forms: how images of mass death reemerged in modern cinema --From Versailles to the silver screen: Sacha Guitry, historian of France --"Me? Uh, nothing": The French new wave, politics, and history --Peter Watkins, live from history : the films, style and method of cinema's special correspondent --The theory of sparks : a history in images, according to Jean-Luc Godard --Demodern aesthetics: filming the end of communism --America unraveled: master fictions in contemporary Hollywood cinema
Subject:
Motion pictures and history