Newly available in paperback, this study provides a scholarly yet
accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great
directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the
poetic realist film movement of the 1930s. His films, a number of
which were made in collaboration with the poet-turned-scriptwriter
Jacques Prevert, include such well-known works as Le quai des
brumes, Le jour se leve and Les enfants du paradis. As the first
book to be written on Carne for a number of years, it offers a
fresh perspective on his cinema, particularly through a
re-examination of his post-war work - although many of these films
were very popular and offer a fascinating insight into France at
the time, they have, until now, largely been neglected. Adopting a
carefully crafted aesthetic, his films explore a tension between
pessimism and entrapment on the one hand, and transcendence,
idealised romantic love and a populist celebration of working-class
life on the other. His career traversed key moments in French
cinema, including poetic realism, the tradition of quality and the
French New Wave, and spanned important historical moments such as
the Popular Front of the 1930s, the Second World War and France's
post-war modernisation. This book will be of interest to scholars,
students and film-lovers alike. -- .
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