Below you will find a variety of resources for researching French and Francophone cinema: tools for ready reference questions (such as film dictionaries and encyclopedias); access to journal articles about French/Francophone film; citations of books and links to websites about French and Francophone film history, criticism (including film reviews), and theory; sources on French film directors and on the plots and themes of renowned French films; and more. This page is still under construction; more resources (and more annotations to resources already cited) will be added. Many thanks to Professor Margaret C. Flinn of the French Department and to Bob Cagle of the English Library for their guidance and for their numerous suggestions of sources to include here.
Note: For a listing of French films available at UIUC, do a subject heading search for "Motion pictures, French" in the online catalog.
Please direct all comments or requests for information to Caroline Szylowicz, French Subject Specialist (244-3092) • szylowic@illinois.edu
791.4303 J827v (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Journot, Marie-Thérèse.
Le vocabulaire du
cinéma. Paris: Nathan, 2002. 125 p.
This handy little dictionary includes over 500 entries on terminology used by film specialists. Entries include examples and cross-references. Also provided is a bibliography of other film dictionaries and of general works on cinema.
791.4303 M769M (Main Stacks)
Montvalon, Christine de.
Les mots du cinéma.
Français retrouvé. Paris: Belin, c1987. 511 p. with illustrations.
From "A (film)" (meaning A-list movie) to "Zorro", this French-language dictionary includes entries on popular expressions from the movies as well as technical cinematographic terms. Informative and entertaining.
This English-language online glossary provides definitions for many technical filmmaking terms. Includes an alphabetical and subject index for browsing as well as recommendations of a few useful print works and links to related websites. (As the site's creator notes, it does take some time for the glossary and index to load at first, but once they are in a browser's cache access becomes a bit quicker.)
791.430944 N622 (Main Stacks)
Prédal, René, dir.
900 cinéastes français
d'aujourd'hui: dictionnaire. Collection "Septième art", 85. [Paris]: Cerf : Télérama, c1988.
515 p.
This volume offers biographies, filmographies, critical analyses, and bibliographies for 900 French filmmakers, each of whom directed at least one feature-length film between 1970 and the dictionary's publication in 1988.
791.430944 M283C (Main Stacks)
Maillot, Pierre.
Le cinéma français: de Renoir
à Godard. Paris: MA Editions, c1988. 325 p. with illustrations.
This dictionary, which focuses on cinema from the 1930s to the 1970s, offers entries on people, films, places, and themes. Includes indexes of film titles and of people and topics.
016.79143096 C49 (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Les cinémas d'Afrique:
dictionnaire. Paris: Karthala: Editions ATM, 2000. 592 p.
This dictionary presents entries on African directors from 54 African countries and the Caribbean. There are also indexes by film titles and by countries of origin.
Q.016.79143023 Sh65d (Africana Ref. and Undergraduate Library)
Shiri, Keith, ed.
Directory of African
film-makers and films. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1992. xiv, 194 p.
A reference guide to African directors from 29 different countries and states who actively produced feature, documentary, and animated films from the 1930s to the book's publication in 1992. Arranged alphabetically by the directors' last names, entries provide brief biographical information and a filmography for each director. There are indexes by country and film title and a general index that includes educational institutions, organizations, film bodies and companies, titles of books and plays, and film personalities other than the directors listed as main entries.
016.79143096 (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Dictionnaire du cinéma
africain. Paris: Karthala: Ministère de la coopération et du développement, c1991- .
Organized by country of origin, this dictionary offers filmographies of over 400 directors from 36 African countries. There are indexes by the directors' names and film titles.
791.43092 Ar54d (Africana Ref.)
Armes, Roy.
Dictionary of North African
film makers = Dictionnaire des cinéastes du Maghreb. Collection Caméra des trois mondes; v. 2.
Bilingual ed., English/French. Paris, France: Editions ATM, 1996. 169, 166 p.
791.43750956 C738 (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Leaman, Oliver.
Companion Encyclopedia of
Middle Eastern and North African Film. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. 607 p.
Includes a chapter on cinema in the Maghreb (pp. 420-517), which will be of particular interest to scholars of Francophone film. Provides filmographies and information about filmmakers from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. At the back of the volume are a general index, a name index, and a film index.
791.4309714 D561 1999 (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Coulombe, Michel and Marcel Jean, eds.
Le dictionnaire du cinéma
québécois. Montréal: Boréal, 1999.
An inventory of Québécois cinema from its origins to the year 2000, this volume offers information on directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, actors, producers, etc. There are general entries on the history of several important aspects of cinema (such as distribution and film journals), entries on specific films, and entries on significant figures in Québécois cinema. At the back of the volume are the main credits for 400 films, followed by a bibliography.
Q.791.430341 D549 (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Passek, Jean Loup, dir., assisté de Michel Ciment, Claude Michel Cluny, Jean-Pierre Frouard.
Dictionnaire du
cinéma. Paris: Larousse, c1986. xiv, 888 p., with black-and-white and color
illustrations.
This encyclopedic dictionary features over 4,700 articles on the artistic, historic, technical, and economic aspects of cinema, from its beginning to the late 20th century. There are entries on important people in cinema, film genres, technical terms, film festivals, and more. Also includes the main credits of 2,001 films and a substantial bibliography.
Q. 791.4309 In82000 (Main Stacks Ref. and Undergraduate Library Ref.)
Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast.
International dictionary of
films and filmmakers. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, c2000. 4 v. with illustrations.
791.4303 SA15DI1982 (Main Stacks)
Sadoul, Georges.
Dictionnaire des films.
(New edition.) Microcosme. [Paris] : Seuil, [1982], c1965. 345 p. with illustrations.
Entries on about 1,200 international films, at least 95% of which the author has himself viewed. Each entry includes country and year of the film's release, name of director, leads, and other significant contributors, information on the plot, and often some critical commentary by the author.
791.4303 SA15D1982 (Main Stacks)
Sadoul, Georges.
Dictionnaire des cinéastes.
(New edition.) Microcosme. [Paris]: Seuil, [1982], c1965. 302 p. with illustrations.
About 1,000 entries on international directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, musicians, producers, historians, inventors, etc. Each entry includes basic biographical information and titles and dates of most important films. Several entries are accompanied by a photos of the filmmakers. At the end of the volume is a bibliography.
791.4303 K836C (Communications Ref. and Main Stacks)
Konigsberg, Ira.
The complete film
dictionary. New York: New American Library, c1987. viii, 420 p. with
illustrations.
791.4303 K15f2005 (Main Stacks)
Katz, Ephraim.
The film encyclopedia: [the
most comprehensive encyclopedia of world cinema in a single volume] 5th ed. / revised by Fred
Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen. New York: Collins, c2005. 1542 p.
791.4303 D561 (Main Stacks)
Horvilleur, Gilles, dir.
Dictionnaire des personnages
du cinéma. Paris: Bordas, 1988. 557 p. with illustrations.
Alphabetically-arranged entries on characters and stereotypical roles from the world of film, beginning with "abbé (voir prêtre)," "Abbott et Costello," "académicien," and "accusé," and ending with "zoophile," "Zorba," "Zorro," and "Zoulou." Includes indexes of actors and films mentioned throughout the volume.
791.430944 V743C (Main Stacks Ref.)
Vincendeau, Ginette.
The companion to French
cinema. London : Cassell : British Film Institute, 1996. xii, 202 p. with
illustrations.
791.4303 H335k2000 (Literatures and Languages Ref.)
Hayward, Susan.
Cinema studies: the key
concepts. 2nd ed. Routledge key guides. London; New York : Routledge, 2000. xx, 528 p.
791.43 In81 (English Library)
Nelmes, Jill, ed.
An introduction to film
studies. 2nd ed. London; New York : Routledge, 1999. xviii, 522 p. with
illustrations.
791.430944 R248 (Main Stacks)
Bandy, Mary Lea.
Rediscovering French film.
With an introduction by Richard Roud. New York: Museum of Modern Art; Boston: Distributed by New
York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown, c1983. 220 p. with illustrations.
791.43096 R917g (Africana/Afro-Americana Ref., English Ref., and Main Stacks)
Russell, Sharon A.
Guide to African cinema.
Reference guides to the world's cinema. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xv, 183 p.
791.430971 G941 (Main Stacks Ref.)
Rist, Peter Harry, ed.
Guide to the cinema(s) of
Canada. Reference guides to the world's cinema. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. xxv,
303 p.
791.430971 T139 (Literatures and Languages Library)
Wise, Wyndham, ed.
Take one's Essential guide to
Canadian film. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c2001. xiv, 272 p.
016.79143 H122f (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Hagener, Malte and Michael Töteberg.
Film, an international
bibliography. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002. x, 479 p.
A total of some 12,000 titles in the following categories: reference works; film history; national cinematographies; monographs; theory, criticism, and publishing; technology; politics, economy, and law; and TV, (multi-)media, and video. Includes indexes of authors and films.
016.79143096 Sch55s1988 (Africana Ref.)
Schmidt, Nancy.
Sub-Saharan African Films and
Filmmakers: An Annotated Bibliography. = Films et Cinéastes Africains de la Région
Subsaharienne: Une Bibliographie Commentée. London; New Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers, 1994. ix, 468
p.
016.79143 IN82 (Main Reference)
International Index to Film
Periodicals. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1972-
927.92 M364F (Main Stacks)
France. Screen series.
London: Zwemmer; New York, A. S. Barnes, 1971. 191 p. with illustrations and portraits.
The following electronic indexes provide access to articles about French films. Most are available via Online Research Resources:
FIAF
International FilmArchive Database
CASC (a.k.a. Film and
Television Literature Index; a.k.a. Film Literature Index)
MLA International Bibliography
(a.k.a. American Bibliography; a.k.a. MLA American Bibliography)
Please Note: Some of these journals are devoted exclusively to film; others also treat other cultural media, such as literature, but do frequently include articles about cinema. Dates in parentheses refer to issues available via Online Journals & Databases. Dates outside of parentheses refer to issues available in print at the given locations.
L'Avant-scène du cinéma - in Main Stacks at 791.43 Av15
Cahiers du cinéma - 1951-present in Main Stacks at Q. 792.505 CA; current and most recent issues in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
Camera Obscura (5/1997-present); 1976-present in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.437 C144
Cineaction! (1/2006-present); 1985-2006 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.43705 CI
Le Cinéma français. -- 1977-1980 in Main Stacks at Q.791.4305 CIF
Cinema Journal (1961-present); 1961-present in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.4305 CIN
Critical Inquiry (1974-present); 1974-present in Main Stacks at 801.905 CR; more recent issues in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
Diacritics (1971-2003); 1971-2005 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 801.905 DI>
Differences (1/1993-present); 1989-2005 in Main Stacks at 305.4205 DI; more recent issues in Women's Studies Reading Room
Discourse: Berkeley journal for theoretical studies in media and culture (2000-present); 1979-2003 in Communications Library at 302.2305 DI
L'Esprit Créateur (2006-present); 1961-2005 in Main Stacks at 840.5 ES; more recent issues in Modern Languages & Linguistics Library
Film Comment (1/1988-present); 1962-present in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.4305 FC
Film Culture (6/1992-12/1996); 1957-1976 in Main Stacks and 1955-1996 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at Q. 792.505 FILC
French Forum (1976-present); 1976-2005 in Main Stacks at 840.5 FRE; more recent issues in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
French Review (1927-2001); 1927-2001 in Main Stacks at 440.5 FRE; last 5 years in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies (1/1997-present); 1993-1995 in Main Stacks at 305.9066405 GL; 1995-2006 in Education library
The Journal of Popular Film & Television: JPF&T (1/1972-present); 1978-2006 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.4305 JO1
Literature-Film Quarterly (1/1973-present); 1973-present in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.4305 LI
October (1976-present); 1976-present in Architecture & Art Library at 705 OC
Positif -- 1956-2005 in Main Stacks at Q.791.4305 PO; 2006-2007 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
Postmodern Culture (9/1990-present); Online Only
Screen (4/2006-present) Online Only
Sight and Sound (1932-present); 1933-present in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at Q.792.505 SI
Social Text (1979-present); 1985-1995 in Main Stacks at 303.405 SO; last 10 years in Education Library
Studies in French Cinema (1/2001-present) Online Only
SubStance (1971-present); 1971-2009 in Main Stacks at 805 SUB
Technology and Culture (1959-2009); 1960-2009 in Main Stacks at 609.05 TEC
The Velvet Light Trap (1973-present); 1971-2007 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
Wide Angle (1/1996-10/1999); 1977-1999 in Literatures and Languages Periodicals at 791.4305 WI
Yale French Studies (1948-2004); 1949-2001 in Main Stacks at 840.5 YA; last five years in Literatures and Languages Periodicals
Note: For a complete list of the nearly 100 online journals about film available through UIUC (including those listed above and others), go to Online Research Resources, select the tab that reads "Journals & Newspapers" and then, under "Arts & Humanities," select "Film." These journals do not all specialize in French cinema, but many may still be useful in researching specific French films.
Bright Lights Film Journal -- http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/
Film-Philosophy -- http://www.film-philosophy.com/
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture -- http://imagesjournal.com/index.html
Jumpcut -- http://www.ejumpcut.org/
Kamera -- http://www.kamera.co.uk/
Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies -- http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
Senses of Cinema -- http://www.sensesofcinema.com/
EBO.F02/2007.85 (Oak Street Facility)
Pinel, Vincent.
Cinéma français. [Paris]:
Cahiers du cinéma, c2006. 318 p. with black-and-white and color illustrations.
This beautifully illustrated work discusses French film in the context of three major periods: from the beginning of cinema to the end of the silent film era (the Lumière brothers, Méliès, Fantômas...), from the 1930s through the 1950s (René Clair, Jean Renoir, Simone Signoret...), and from the Nouvelle Vague to the present (Alain Resnais, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, le cinéma du réel...). Includes a chronology of French cinema at the back of the volume.
791.430944 H629 (Literatures and Languages)
Beylie, Claude, dir.
Une histoire du cinéma
français. Paris: Larousse, 2000. 277 p. with black-and-white illustrations.
This volume includes a collection of essays that treat the history of French cinema both chronologically (from the "années 'Lumière'" to recent years) and thematically (by discussions of Francophone cinema, short films, animation, economics and politics, conservation and restoration) as well as brief dictionaries of important people in French cinema and of films. Appendices provide information on the number of feature films produced in France since 1919, lists of French films featured in international festivals and of those that have won major film awards, and a list of the biggest box office successes.
Q.791.430944 C374c (Literatures and Languages)
Chardère, Bernard.
Le cinéma français à travers
100 succès. Paris: Larousse, 2003. 239 p. with black-and-white and color film stills and
illustrations.
This large volume traces the history of French cinema from its origins in the silent films of Lumière and Méliès to the beginning of the 21st century, providing information and essays about 100 influential French films along with beautiful film stills from them. This engaging introduction to French cinema may well inspire readers to look for these films and to research them further.
791.430944 H6292 (Main Stacks)
Douin, Jean-Luc et Daniel Couty, dirs.
Histoire(s) de films
français: réalisateurs, acteurs, scénaristes... Paris: Bordas, 2005. 800 p.
Essays on about 100 French films, presented in chronological order of production/release, from the Lumi ère brothers' Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1896) to Jacquot's A tout de suite and Kechiche's L'Esquive (both released in 2004). This volume seeks to recount a history of cinema through these analyses of landmark films, telling the stories of each movie, its director, actors, etc. Includes a brief preface, a general bibliography, a bibliography containing works on specific films, and indexes of the films, directors, actors, and other individuals influential in the world of French cinema.
791.430944 F8872000 (English and Mod. Lang. & Ling. Libraries)
Hayward, Susan and Ginette Vincendeau, eds.
French Film: Texts and
Contexts. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 348 p.
with black-and-white film stills.
This volume offers scholarly analyses of 22 influential French films produced from the 1930s through the 1990s, from Marcel Pagnol's trilogy (Marius, Fanny, and César) and Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange to Besson's Nikita and Kassovitz's La Haine. Each essay includes a guide to further reading and a filmography of the director. A bibliography of reference works and works on film history and criticism is also included at the end of the textbook.
791.430944 L299f (Literatures and Languages and Undergraduate Library)
Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier.
French cinema: from its
beginnings to the present. New York: Continuum, 2002. 496p. with illustrations.
025.17730944 M316h (Oak Street Facility)
Mannoni, Laurent.
Histoire de la cinémathèque
française. Paris: Gallimard, 2006. 507 p. with illustrations.
This history traces 70 years of the Cinémathèque français, from its opening in the 1930s, through the fear and incertitude of the 1940s, the New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s, the Malraux years, the Langlois affair, and the Costa-Gavras years, to its direction under Serge Toubiana beginning in April 2003. Includes an index of proper names.
791.430944 P875f (Undergraduate Library; Temporarily Shelved at Undergrad
Reserves)
Powrie, Phil and Keith Reader.
French cinema: a student's
guide. London: Arnold, 2002. 212 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 F887 (Undergraduate Library; Temporarily Shelved at Undergrad Reserves)
Temple, Michael and Michael Witt, eds.
The French cinema book.
London: BFI Pub., 2004. 294 p. with illustrations.
790 B234c (Main Stacks)
Barbin, Pierre.
La cinémathèque française:
inventaire et légendes, 1936-1986. Paris: Vuibert, c2005. 210 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 H335f2005 (Undergrad Reserves)
Hayward, Susan.
French national cinema.
2nd ed. National cinemas series. London; New York: Routledge, 2005. xii, 378 p. with
illustrations.
791.430944 W67R (Literatures and Languages)
Williams, Alan.
Republic of images: a history
of French filmmaking. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. 458 p. with
illustrations.
791.4309 L518C (Main Stacks)
Leenhardt, Roger.
Chroniques de cinéma.
Cahiers du cinéma. Ecrits. Paris: Editions de l'Etoile, c1986. 236, [4] p. with illustrations.
791.430944 AR54F (Main Stacks)
Armes, Roy.
French cinema. London:
Secker & Warburg, 1985. 310 p. with photos.
Q.791.4309 Sk41f 2002 (Literatures and Languages and Undergrad Library)
Sklar, Robert.
A world history of film.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. 600 p. with black-and-white and color illustrations.
791.43 V948 (Literatures and Languages Library)
Aumont, Jacques, dir.
Les voyages du spectateur: de
l'imaginaire au cinéma. Conférences du Collège d'Histoire de l'Art Cinématographique 2003-2004.
Paris: L. Scheer: Cinémathèque française, 2004. 338 p. with illustrations. Accompanied by a DVD of
Philippe Garrel's film Le Révélateur (1968).
These essays, which discuss a total of about 20 international films released between 1928 and 1992, focus on the cinema's capacity to awaken the imagination. Includes papers on Cocteau's L'Aigle à deux têtes, Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar, Rohmer's Les Nuits de pleine lune, and Garrel's Le Révélateur (a DVD of this film accompanies the book).
Encarta Encyclopedia: "French Cinema"
This online encyclopedia article offers a basic history of French cinema, from silent films to the first sound films, to French cinema after World War II, to recent developments in French films and speculations and the future of French film.
DVD 791.43 L971k (Undergraduate Media Collection)
The Lumière Brothers' first
films [videorecording]. New York: Kino on Video; [Chatsworth, CA: Image Entertainment
[distributor], c1998.
This 61-minute DVD offers a "look at the birth of the motion picture through 85 of the more than 1,500 films made by the Lumière Brothers between 1895 and 1897. These films include views of Moscow, New York, Paris, Saigon, and Jerusalem; vignettes of life in France; and comedy shorts." Commentary in English and French.
791.430903 En192 (Main Stacks Reference and Undergrad)
Abel, Richard, ed.
Encyclopedia of early
cinema. London; New York: Routledge, 2005. xxx, 791 p. with illustrations.
791.43 M867N (Oak Street Facility)
Moussinac, Le´on.
Naissance du cinéma. Paris:
J. Povolozky, c1925. 178 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 AB35F (Literatures and Languages and Main Stacks)
Abel, Richard.
French cinema: the first wave,
1915-1929. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1984. xxi, 672 p. with
illustrations.
791.43084 AB35C (Oak Street Facility)
Abel, Richard.
The ciné goes to town: French
cinema, 1896-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994. xxiii, 568 p. with
illustrations.
Q.791.4309 C333 (Oak Street Facility)
Gaudréault, André, dir.
Ce que je vois de mon ciné-- :
la représentation du regard dans le cinéma des premiers temps. [Paris]: Méridiens Klincksieck,
1988. 174 p. with illustrations.
791.4309 D7143c (Main Stacks)
Gaudréault, André, Catherine Russell, and Pierre Véronneau, dirs.
Le cinématographe, nouvelle
technologie du XXe siècle = The cinema, a new technology for the 20th century. Lausanne: Payot
Lausanne, c2004. 398 p. with illustrations.
791.4309 H6292 (Main Stacks)
Gaudréault, André.
L'Histoire du cinéma:
nouvelles approches: colloque de Cerisy. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1989. 209 p.
791.430944 C698P (Main Stacks)
Guibbert, Pierre, ed.
Les Premiers ans du cinéma
français: [actes du Ve colloque international de l'Institut Jean Vigo]. Collection des Cahiers
de la cinèmathèque. Perpignan: L'Institut Jean Vigo, c1985. 319 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 V757 (Main Stacks)
Lagny, Michel et al.
Les vingt premières années du
cinéma français: actes du colloque international de la Sorbonne nouvelle, 4, 5 et 6 novembre
1993. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle: Editions de l'AFRHC, c1995. 510 p. with
illustrations.
792.5 SA1H1973 (Vol. 1 in Main Stacks; Vol. 3 in Undergraduate Library)
Sadoul, Georges.
Histoire générale du
cinéma. 2nd edition. Paris, Denoël, [1973] 1948- Vol 1. L'invention du cinéma 1832-1897. Vol.
2. Les pionniers du cinéma 1897-1909. Vol. 3. Le cinéma devient un art 1909-1920.
791.4309 M69H (Main Stacks)
Mitry, Jean. Histoire du cinéma. Tome 3: 1923-1930: Art et industrie. Encyclopédie universitaire. Paris: Éditions universitaires, 1973. 630 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 C868g (Literatures and Languages)
Crisp, C. G.
Genre, myth, and convention in
the French cinema, 1929-1939. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2002. 460 p. with
illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-433) and indexes. Filmography: p.
380-420.
791.43658 Sl16c (Literatures and Languages)
Slavin, David Henry.
Colonial cinema and imperial
France, 1919-1939: white blind spots, male fantasies, settler myths. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2001. xv, 300 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 AN25M (Literatures and Languages and Undergraduate Libraries)
Andrew, James Dudley.
Mists of regret: culture and
sensibility in classic French film. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1995. xv, 409
p. with illustrations.
791.4309 B34C:E (Main Stacks and Undergrad)
Bazin, André.
French cinema of the occupation
and the resistance: the birth of a critical esthetic. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., c1981. viii,
166 p.
791.4309 B34C (Main Stacks)
Bazin, André.
Le cinéma de l'occupation et de
la résistance. [Paris]: Union générale d'éditions, c1975. 194 p.
791.437 B348C (Main Stacks)
Bazin, André.
Le cinéma français de la
libération à la nouvelle vague, 1945-1958. Paris: Editions de l'Etoile-Cahiers du cinéma, 1983.
255 p. with illustrations.
384.80944 EH89C (Main Stacks and Undergraduate Library)
Ehrlich, Evelyn.
Cinema of paradox: French
filmmaking under the German occupation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. 235 p. with
illustrations.
791.430944 SI12F (Main Stacks)
Siclier, Jacques.
La France de Pétain et son
cinéma. Collection "L'Histoire en question." [Paris]: H. Veyrier, c1981. 460 p. with
illustrations.
Q.791.43750944 B445H (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Bessy, Maurice.
Histoire du cinéma français:
encyclopédie des films 1940-1950. Paris: Pygmalion, c1986-c1987; 596 p. with black-and-white
film stills and illustrations.
Includes brief filmographies of French films produced from 1940-1950 and beautiful, large stills from these films. There are indexes of proper names (directors, actors, etc.) and film titles.
791.430944 C445Q (Main Stacks)
Chirat, Raymond.
La IVe république et ses films:
interview de Micheline Presle. Bibliothèque du cinéma. [Paris?]: 5 Continents; Hatier, c1985.
175 p. with illustrations.
791.4375 B34b (Literatures and Languages)
Bazin, André.
Bazin at work: major essays
& reviews from the forties & fifties. New York: Routledge, 1997. xvi, 252 p. with
illustrations.
La Nouvelle Vague (a.k.a. French New Wave cinema; 1950-1970)
791.43611 N397h 2007 (Literatures and Languages)
Neupert, Richard John.
A history of the French new
wave cinema. 2nd edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 342 p. with
illustrations.
This history begins with a look at the precursors to New Wave cinema, demonstrating how they would influence directors to follow; then discusses the "core group" of critics from Cahiers du Cinéma who became key directors of the New Wave (Truffaut, Chabrol, Godard...); next treats the work of Rohmer, Rivette, Doniol-Valcroze, and Kast; and, in a chapter new to this edition, explores the work of the Left Bank Group, which consisted of directors such as Resnais and Varda. Includes a bibliography and an index of proper names, film titles, and topics.
791.43658 C737a (Main Stacks)
Comolli, Jean-Louis.
Les années pop: cinéma et
politique, 1956-1970 / Jean-Louis Comolli, Gérard Leblanc, Jean Narboni, et une filmographie
commentée. [Paris] : Bibliothèque publique d'information, Centre Pompidou, [c2001]. 127 p. with
illustrations.
791.430944 N226 (Main Stacks)
Cléder, Jean and Gilles Mouellic, eds.
Nouvelle vague, nouveaux
rivages: permanences du récit au cinéma, 1950-1970. Collection "Interférences." Rennes: Presses
universitaires de Rennes, 2001. 282 p. Proceedings of a meeting held at the Université de Rennes,
Mar. 2, 1999.
791.43 SI1N (Main Stacks)
Siclier, Jacques.
Nouvelle vague?
Collection "Septième art" Paris: Cerf, 1961. 132 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 D744n (Main Stacks)
Douchet, Jean and Cédric Anger.
Nouvelle vague. Paris:
Cinémathèque française: Hazan, 1998. 358 p. with black-and-white and color illustrations.
791.430944 N855 (Main Stacks)
Douin, Jean-Luc.
La Nouvelle vague 25 ans après:
dossier. Collection "Septième art", 66. Paris: Cerf, 1983. 238 p. with illustrations.
791.430232092 N855 (Main Stacks)
Tassone, Aldo, dir.
Que reste-t-il de la nouvelle
vague? Paris: Stock, c2003. 349 p.
791.430944 M337n:E (Literatures and Languages)
Marie, Michel.
The French new wave: an
artistic school. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003. viii, 172 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 B144n (Main Stacks)
Baecque, Antoine de.
La Nouvelle Vague: portrait
d'une jeunesse. Générations. Paris: Flammarion, 1998. 159 p. with illustrations.
791.43 G54e (Literatures and Languages)
Esquenazi, Jean-Pierre.
Godard et la société française
des années 1960. Armand Colin cinéma. Paris : A. Colin, 2004. x, 292 p. with illustrations.
A discussion of Godard in the context of changing French society, this work traces the evolution of the director from a young fan of Hollywood to an "enemy" of popular cinema in favor of his own form of the art. Includes an extensive bibliography and an index of proper names.
791.430944 (Main Stacks)
Buache, Freddy.
Le cinéma français des années
60. Renens [Switzerland]: 5 Continents; [Paris]: Hatier, c1987. 191 p. with illustrations.
A study of the phenomenon of New Wave cinema in relation to its political context (in particular the Algerian war and the events leading up to the student revolution of May '68). Includes discussions of the works of Truffaut, Cavalier, Chabrol, Bresson, Resnais, and Godard. At the end of the volume are lists of the most important films released from 1958-1968, a bibliography, an index of proper names, and an index of film titles.
Q.791.430944 C492de (Main Stacks)
Comes, Philippe and Michel Marmin, dirs.
Le Cinéma français,
1960-1985. Paris: Editions Atlas, c1985. 190 p. with black-and-white and color illustrations
and portraits.
791.430944 B85c1990 (Main Stacks)
Buache, Freddy.
Le cinéma français des années
70. Renens [Switzerland]: 5 Continents; [Paris]: Hatier, 1990. 247 p. with illustrations.
This volume discusses the repercussions of May '68 in the world of cinema, populism and critical realism, psychological and social criticism, naturalist and fantastic cinema, and documentaries and animation. Directors treated include Chabrol, Costa-Gavras, Sautet, Melville, Deville, Berri, Tati, Godard, Rohmer, Blier, Tavernier, Malle, Bresson, Duras, Truffaut, and Resnais. A list of the most important films released from 1969-1979, a bibliography, an index of film titles, and an index of proper names are included at the end of the book.
791.430944 F887 (Literatures and Languages)
Powrie, Phil, ed.
French cinema in the 1990s:
continuity and difference: essays. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xv, 286 p.
with illustrations.
A collection of 21 essays, divided into the following sections: "History, Heritage, and Pastiche"; "Inscribing Differences"; and "Defining the 'National'." Various films are discussed, including Germinal, Indochine, Un héros très discret, Ridicule, Les Visiteurs, La Haine, Les Amants de Pont-Neuf, Chacun cherche son chat, Mon Père ce héros, and Kieslowski's Trois couleurs trilogy.
791.430944 F8442 (Literatures and Languages)
Mazdon, Lucy, ed.
France on film: reflections on
popular French cinema. London: Wallflower, 2001. viii, 180 p.
This work includes essays on Jean de Florette, La Femme Nikita, Les Visiteurs, Karim Dridi's Bye-bye, Gazon maudit, Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noel?, Chacun cherche son chat, Un héros très discret, Ma vie en rose, Marius et Jeannette, and Catherine Breillat's Romance. A bibliography and an index are also provided.
016.7914375 W649v (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
VideoHound's world cinema: the
adventurer's guide to movie watching. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, c1999. xix, 551 p. with
illustrations.
Reviews of over 800 films produced outside of the U.S. in the last 100 years, including films from Europe, the Middle East, and Canada. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the English title of the films. There are also sidebars on numerous directors and actors as well as indexes by master titles, countries of origin, cast, directors, writers, cinematographers, composers, and categories.
Q. 791.4375 G941 (Main Ref. and Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Allan, Elkan, ed.
A Guide to world cinema:
covering 7,200 films of 1950-84 including capsule reviews and stills from the programmes of the
National Film Theatre, London. London: Whittet Books in association with the British Film
Institute; Detroit, MI : Distributed in North America by Gale Research Co., 1985. v, 682 p. with
illustrations.
Entries are presented in alphabetical order by film title. French and other non-English film titles are given in English translation. Includes an index of directors.
This search engine allows searching for film reviews by movie title, keyword(s) from the title, or category (such as recent releases and winners of specific film festivals).
Over 7,000 detailed English-language reviews of films from around the world.
791.43658 Sl16c (Literatures and Languages)
Slavin, David Henry.
Colonial cinema and imperial
France, 1919-1939: white blind spots, male fantasies, settler myths. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2001. xv, 300 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 (Literatures and Languages)
Spaas, Lieve.
The Francophone film: a
struggle for identity. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: distributed
exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000. xii, 290 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 C494 (English Library)
Sherzer, Dina.
Cinema, colonialism,
postcolonialism: perspectives from the French and francophone world. 1st ed. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1996. 257 p.
Q.791.43091754 C49 (Main Stacks)
Bossaerts, Marc and Catherine Van Geel.
Cinéma d'en francophonie.
Bruxelles, Belgique: F.I.F.F-Solibel, 1995. 139 p. with illustrations and portraits.
791.43096 Ar549a (Literatures and Languages)
Armes, Roy.
African filmmaking: North and
South of the Sahara. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xii, 224 p. with
illustrations.
791.436 T219d (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Library)
Tcheuyap, Alexie.
De l'écrit à l'écran: Les
réécritures filmiques du roman africain francophone. Ottawa: Les Presses, de l'Université
d'Ottawa, 2005. 229 p. with black-and-white photos.
This work uses semiotics, poetics, and post-colonial theory to examine cinematic adaptations of African novels. Includes a bibliography of primary sources, criticism, and literary and film theory.
791.43096 Uk1q (Literatures and Languages)
Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank.
Questioning African Cinema:
Conversations with Filmmakers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2002. xxi, 319
p.
Ukadike's interviews with filmmakers from twelve African countries explore the historical, social, economic, pedagogical, and political forces that have influenced African cinema in recent decades. These conversations also probe the individual styles and outlooks of the 20 filmmakers who participated in the project. Each interview is preceded by introductory information on the filmmaker in question and followed by a filmography of his/her works.
Q.791.430965 Al31 (Oak Street Facility)--Choukroun, Jacques and François de La Bretèque. Algé́rie d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Cahiers de la cinémathèque; no. 76. Perpignan : Institut Jean Vigo, 2004. 127 p. with illustrations.
This special issue of Les Cahiers de la cinémathèque is organized in two parts that, together, present the evolution of films produced in Algeria: "Le cinéma colonial" and "Le cinéma depuis l'Indépendance." The conclusion of the issue looks to the future of Algerian cinema and emphasizes the importance of protecting and distributing films made in Algeria as well as films made by Algerians abroad.
791.430967 T325a (Main Stacks)
Thackway, Melissa.
Africa shoots back:
alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 2003. x, 230 p. with illustrations.
Thackway presents a brief history of sub-Saharan Francophone African film in her introduction, then goes on to discuss Eurocentrism, postmodernism vs. postcoloniality and the need for new critical paradigms, cultural identity and voice, orature and film, memory and history, filming the immigrant experience, and African women both on screen and behind the camera. The work includes interviews with several directors, a bibliography, a filmography, and an index of names, film titles, and topics.
791.4365809714 P755c (Literatures and Languages)
Poirier, Christian.
Le cinéma québécois: à la
recherche d'une identité? Sainte-Foy (Québec) Canada: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2004.
2 v.
Volume 1, "L'imaginaire filmique," presents an analysis of the images of society portrayed in Québécois films from 1900 to 2000 and of what these images imply about individual and collective identities in Quebec. Volume 2, "Les politiques cinématographiques," discusses the involvement of Québécois and Canadian government in the film industry and the main individuals and organizations involved in influencing Québécois cinema. Each volume includes bibliographical references.
791.430971 L467f (Literatures and Languages)
Leach, Jim.
Film in Canada. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2006. 196 p. with illustrations.
Treating both French- and English-language films, this work discusses trends and developments in Canadian filmmaking since the 1960s. Includes an extensive bibliography, a filmography of movies discussed throughout the work, and an index of proper names and topics.
791.430971 M491o (English Library)
Melnyk, George.
One hundred years of Canadian
cinema. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c2004. x, 361 p. with illustrations.
791.430971 M749w (Literatures and Languaes)
Monk, Katherine.
Weird sex & snowshoes: and
other Canadian film phenomena. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001. 357 p. with illustrations.
This history of Canadian film includes information on Canadian directors and producers as well as reviews of 100 Canadian movies, a bibliography, and an index.
791.4309714 M355q (Main Stacks) -- Marshall, Bill. Quebec National Cinema. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 371 p.
This discussion of French-language films from Quebec is organized into the following chapters: "Producing and Envisioning the Nation," "Foudational Fictions," "The Cinema of Modernization," "Quebec/France," "Sex and the Nation," "Auteurism after 1970," "Popular Cinema," "Women's Cinema," "The Indigenous Other," "The Immigrant Other," and "Modernity and Postmodernity." Includes a bibliography and an index of people, film titles, and topics.
791.43653 W357r (Literatures and Languages and Main Stacks)
Waugh, Thomas.
The romance of transgression
in Canada: queering sexualities, nations, cinemas. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2006. xxiii, 599 p. with illustrations.
791.436 L835s (Main Stacks)
Loiselle, André.
Stage-bound: feature film
adaptations of Canadian and Québécois drama. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
260 p.
791.430971 C16 (Literatures and Languages)
Walz, Eugene P.
Canada's best features:
critical essays on 15 Canadian films. Cross/cultures 56. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. xxxv, 383 p.
with illustrations.
791.4309714 Es73 (Oak Street Facility)
Donohue, Joseph I., Jr., ed.
Essays on Quebec Cinema.
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1991. 194 p.
The essays in this collection are divided into the following sections: "Overviews of Quebec Cinema," "Filmmakers on Film," "Essays on Themes/Directors," and "Perspectives on Individual Films." The volume also includes a brief biographical dictionary of Québécois directors, filmwriters, and producers; a selected bibliography; and an index of names of people, film titles, film festivals, and awards.
791.43626 J986I (Africana Ref.)
Jutras, Dominique avec la collaboration de Monique Larue-Lamy.
Images d'ailleurs: films
canadiens sur l'Afrique et le monde créole, 1947 à 1988. Montréal: Editions du Cidihca, c1991.
xv, 471 p. with illustrations.
384.80971 C16C (Main Stacks)
Canadian cinema, a solid base:
report of the film industry. [Ottawa]: Government of Canada, [1985]. 62, 56 p.
Q.791.4309494 D897h (Literatures & Languages Ref.)
Dumont, Hervé.
Histoire du cinéma suisse:
films de fiction, 1896-1965. Lausanne: Cinémathèque suisse, c1987. 591 p. with
illustrations.
791.43653 B736h (Literatures and Languages)
Brassart, Alain.
L'homosexualité dans le cinéma
français. Paris: Nouveau monde, 2007. 347 p.
840.9 W8423 Special Issue 2006 (Main Stacks)
Montfort, Catherine R. and Michèle Bissière, guest eds.
Women in French Studies:
French/Francophone Culture and Literature Through Film. Los Angeles, CA: Women in French, 2006. 395
p.
This special issue of the annual periodical Women in French Studies includes discussions of cinematic representations of French, Canadian, North African, and Subsaharan African culture and literature. Some of the women directors whose work is treated here include Coline Serreau, Agnès Varda, Léa Pool, and Claire Denis. Other films with female leads discussed include Chacun cherche son chat and Princesse Tam-Tam. A few of the literary works and film adaptations studied are Alexandre Dumas' La Reine Margot, Andrée Chedid's Le Sixième Jour, and Jacques Savoie's Les Portes Tournantes.
791.430944 T192r2005 (Literatures and Languages Library)
Tarr, Carrie.
Reframing difference: beur and
banlieue filmmaking in France. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2005. viii, 230 p.
with illustrations.
A study of questions of ethnicity and identity in beur cinema (works by and about French immigrants of Maghrebi descent) and banlieueLe Thé au harem d'Archimède, Cheb, Mathieu Kassovitz's Métisse and La Haine, Les Histoires d'amour finissent mal en général, Souviens-toi de moi, Sous les pieds des femms, Vivre au paradis, L'Honneur de ma famille, Marie-Line, Chaos, Jeunesse dorée, Le Thé à la menthe, and La Fille de Keltoum. There are a filmography, a bibliography, and an index of film titles and proper names at the end of the book. cinema (independently released films set in the working-class neighborhoods on the outskirts of large French cities), this book includes discussions of such films as
791.430944 G219s (Oak Street Facility)
Gaston-Mathé, Catherine.
La société française au miroir
de son cinéma: de la débacle à la décolonisation. Collection "Septième art" Paris: Cerf, 1996.
366 p.
This work discusses film representations of French history and society in two parts: Part One, "Un cinéma de l'oubli," argues that French cinema through the 1950s tended to favor myth over realism, particularly in its representations of war; Part Two, "La mémoire retrouvée," treats the re-evaluation of French history (especially in terms of war, colonization, and decolonization) in more recent French films. Includes a bibliography and an index of films cited.
790 M337c (Main Stacks)
Marie, Laurent.
Le cinéma est à nous: Le PCF
et le cinéma français de la Libération à nos jours. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005. 363 p.
A detailed study of the relationship between the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français--PCF) and French cinema from 1944 to the present, this work also includes an extensive bibliography, a filmography that refers back to discussions of specific films within the text, and an index of individuals cited throughout.
Q.302.23430944 Si58c (Main Stacks)
Simsi, Simon.
Ciné-passions: 7e art et
industrie de 1945 à 2000. Paris: Dixit; Paris: Centre national de la cinématographie (CNC),
2000.
791.430944 B144c (Main Stacks)
Baecque, Antoine de.
La cinéphilie: invention d'un
regard, histoire d'une culture, 1944-1968. Histoire de la pensée. [Paris]: Fayard, c2003. 404
p.
This work explores the phenomenon of "cinéphilie" in its Golden Age, when several individuals destined to become great film critics, filmmakers, writers and journalists fell in love with the cinema (André Bazin, Eric Rohmer, Henri Langlois, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Serge Daney...) The book discusses the influences of surrealism, existentialism, literature, structuralism, and the cultural debates of the 1950s and 1960s on the "cinéphiles" of the era. Includes indexes of proper names, films, and "la vie cinéphile" (film reviews, associations, important places, etc.)
791.43655 C114e (Main Stacks)
Cadé, Michel.
L'Ecran bleu: la
représentation des ouvriers dans le cinéma français. Collection Etudes. [Perpignan]: Presses
universitaires de Perpignan, 2000. 271 p. with illustrations.
791.43658 G834l (Main Stacks)
Greene, Naomi.
Landscapes of loss: the
national past in postwar French cinema. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1999. 234
p.
791.430944 AN25M (Literatures and Languages and Undergraduate Libraries)
Andrew, James Dudley.
Mists of regret: culture and
sensibility in classic French film. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1995. xv, 409
p. with illustrations.
791.43750944 (Undergraduate Library)
Buss, Robin.
The French through their
films. New York: Ungar, 1988. 165 p. with illustrations. Filmography: p. 91-156.
906 PA (Main Satcks)
Gauthier, Christophe.
La passion du cinéma:
cinéphiles, ciné-clubs et salles spécialisées à Paris de 1920 à 1929. Mémoires et documents de
l'Ecole des chartes, 56. Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma: Ecole
des Chartes, c1999. ii, 392 p. with illustrations.
302.23430944 B854C (Communications and Main Stacks)
Buchsbaum, Jonathan.
Cinéma engagé: film in the
popular front. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1988. xiv, 308 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 H262M (Communications and Undergraduate Libraries)
Harvey, Sylvia.
May '68 and film culture.
London: British Film Institute, 1980. 167 p.
791.43750944 M456e (Literatures and Languages and Main Stacks)
Mazdon, Lucy.
Encore Hollywood: remaking
French cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2000. 169 p. with illustrations.
791.43 T769alf2 (Main Stacks)
Alfonsi, Laurence.
L'aventure américaine de
l'œuvre de François Truffaut: de la sociologie du cinéma. Collection Cinéma et société. Paris:
Harmattan, c2000. 372 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 M369n (Main Stacks)
Mary, Philippe.
La nouvelle vague et le cinéma
d'auteur: Socio-analyse d'une révolution artistique. Collection Liber. Paris: Seuil, c2006. 269
p.
791.430944 C493 (Main Stacks)
Le Cinéma français muet dans
le monde, influences réciproques: symposium de la F.I.A.F., Paris, 1988. Series: Collection
"Les Cahiers de la cinéathèque." [Toulouse]: Cinémathèque de Toulouse; [Perpignan]: Institut Jean
Vigo, c1989. 285 p. with illustrations.
Q. 791.436 T432e2005 (Undergraduate Library Ref.)
Tibbetts, John C. and James M. Welsh.
The encyclopedia of novels
into film. 2nd ed. The facts on file film reference library. New York: Facts on File, c2005.
xxii, 586 p. with illustrations.
016.79143 R733F (Main Stacks)
Ross, Harris.
Film as literature, literature
as film: an introduction to and bibliography of film's relationship to literature.
Bibliographies and indexes in world literature, no. 10. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. ix, 346
p.
016.79143 W444L (Oak Street Facility)
Welsh, Jeffrey Egan.
Literature and film: an
annotated bibliography, 1909-1977. Garland reference library of the humanities; v. 241. New
York: Garland, 1981. xi, 315 p.
016.79143 W444L1978-1988 (Undergraduate Ref. and Oak Street Facility)
Welch, Jeffrey Egan.
Literature and film: an
annotated bibliography, 1978-1988. Garland reference library of the humanities; vol. 1114. New
York : Garland Pub., 1993. ix, 341 p.
791.430922 M528f (Undergraduate Library)
Michalczyk, John J.
The French literary
filmmakers. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1980.
xiii, 187 p. with illustrations.
Michalczyk asserts that the relationship between French literature and cinema enjoyed a Golden Age in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when several brilliant authors worked on significant films. This book includes chapters on the influence of the following writers on the cinema of the time: Jean Cocteau, Sacha Guitry, Marcel Pagnol, Jean Giono, André Malraux, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras. At the end of the volume are filmographies of each of these individuals, a bibliography, and an index of proper names, film titles, and topics.
791.43 G234D (Main Stacks) -- Gaudréault, André. Du littéraire au filmique: système du récit. Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck, 1988. xiii, 200 p. with illustrations.
906 PA v.68 (Main Stacks)
Carou, Alain.
Le cinéma français et les
écrivains: histoire d'une rencontre, 1906-1914. Mémoires et documents de l'Ecole des chartes,
68. Paris: Ecole nationale des chartes: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du
cinéma, 2002. 364 p. with black-and-white and color illustrations.
791.43 B755p (Oak Street Facility)
Provoyeur, Jean-Louis.
Le cinéma de Robert Bresson:
de l'effet de réel à l'effet de sublime. Champs visuels. Paris: Harmattan, c2003. 367 p.
A discussion of how Bresson's cinema distinguishes itself from the literature that inspired it, this work explains the differences between telling a story (récit) and showing it (montage). Includes a filmography of Bresson's works and a bibliography of interviews with Bresson, books and articles about him, and more general works about literature and cinema.
791.4308 C67A:E (Oak Street Facility)
Virmaux, Alain et Odette, eds.
Colette at the movies:
criticism and screenplays. New York: Ungar, c1980. vii, 213 p. with illustrations.
791.43 M39f2004 (Literatures and Languages)
Braudy, Leo and Marshall Cohen, eds.
Film theory and criticism:
introductory readings. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. 937 p. with illustrations.
791.4301 F487 (Literatures and Languages and Undergrad)
Stam, Robert and Toby Miller, eds.
Film and theory: an
anthology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. xviii, 862 p. with illustrations.
791.4301 C738 (Literatures and Languages)
Miller, Toby and Robert Stam, eds.
A companion to film
theory. Blackwell companions in cultural studies; 1. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999. vi, 428 p.
with illustrations.
791.4301 C869 (Literatures and Languages Ref. and Main Reference)
Pearson, Roberta E. and Philip Simpson, eds.
Critical dictionary of film
and television theory. London; New York: Routledge, 2001. xiii, 498 p.
791.43 M8692 (Communications, Literatures and Languages, and Undergraduate
Libraries; Main Reference)
Nichols, Bill, ed.
Movies and methods: an
anthology. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976-c1985. 2 vols, illustrated.
791.4308 T14F1970 (Undergraduate Library)
Talbot, Daniel, ed.
Film: an anthology.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1970, c1959. 404 p.
791.430150944 AB35F (Literatures and Languages; Temporarily Shelved at Undergrad
Reserves)
Abel, Richard.
French film theory and
criticism: a history/anthology, 1907-1939. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1988.
2 vols. xxv, 452 p.
791.4301 Ai93e (English Library)
Aitken, Ian.
European film theory and
cinema: a critical introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2001. 275 p.
791.43019 M298e (Main Stacks)
Malraux, André.
Esquisse d'une psychologie du
cinéma. Paris: Nouveau monde éditions, 2003. 77 p. with illustrations.
This reprint of Malraux's analysis of cinema as myth and of its relation to other arts (theatre, literature, and painting) is preceded by a new introduction by Jean-Claude Larrat, Malraux scholar and professor at the Université de Caen.
791.43 B34q2002 (Main Stacks)
Bazin, André.
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?
13th edition. 7e art. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2002. 372 p. with illustrations and portraits.
791.43 B34W (Communications Library and Undergraduate Library)
Bazin, André.
What is cinema? Essays
selected and translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley, University of California Press [1967-71] 2
vols.
791.4375 B34b (Literatures and Languages)
Bazin, André.
Bazin at work: major essays
& reviews from the forties & fifties. New York: Routledge, 1997. xvi, 252 p. with
illustrations.
791.43 H63be (Literatures and Languages)
Bellour, Raymond.
Analysis of film.
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2000. 303 p. with illustrations.
700.9 B636r (Art & Architecture Library)
Boissier, Jean-Louis.
La relation comme forme:
l'interactivité en art. Genève: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, 2004. 311 p. with
illustrations + 1 CD-ROM.
791.43 B755N (Oak Street Facility)
Bresson, Robert.
Notes sur le
cinématographe. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1975. 139 p.
791.43 D381C (Main Stacks)
Delluc, Louis.
Le cinéma et les cinéastes.
Ecrits cinématographiques. [Paris]: Cinémathèque française, [1985]. 349 p. with illustrations.
791.4301 D378IM (Main Stacks)
Deleuze, Gilles.
L'image-temps. Cinéma II.
Paris : Editions de Minuit, c1985. 378 p.
791.4301 D378I (Main Stacks)
Deleuze, Gilles.
L'image-mouvement. Cinéma
I. Paris : Editions de Minuit, c1983. 298 p.
791.4308 EP8E (Main Stacks)
Epstein, Jean.
Écrits sur le cinéma,
1921-1953: édition chronologique en deux volumes. Cinéma club. Paris: Seghers, 1974-1975. 2
vols. with illustrations.
791.43 F27F1963 (Undergraduate Library)
Faure, Elie.
Fonction du cinéma, de la
cinéplastique à son destin social. New edition. Bibliothèque Médiations. [Genève]: Éditions
Gontheir, [1963]. 146 p.
791.430014 M697s:E (Literatures and Languages)
Mitry, Jean.
Semiotics and the analysis of
film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2000. xi, 277 p. with illustrations. (Translation
from the original French.)
791.4301 M697A (Main Stacks)
Mitry, Jean.
The aesthetics and the
psychology of the cinema. The Society for Cinema Studies Translation Series. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, c1997. xv, 403 p. (Original French version, 1963 edition, at 791.43 M69E
in the Main Stacks, as Aesthétique et psychologie du cinéma. Encyclopédie universitaire. Paris:
Éditions universitaires, [1963- ] Vol 1, p. 419-424.)
791.43 M568e (Main Stacks)
Metz, Christian.
Essais sur la signification au
cinéma. Tomes I et II. Collection d'Esthétique. Paris: Klincksieck, c2003. 2 vols in 1, 244,
219 p. Originally published as two separate volumes in 1968 and 1972.
791.4301 M56S (Main Stacks)
Metz, Christian.
Le Signifiant imaginaire:
psychanalyse et cinéma. Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1977. 370 p.
791.4301 M56L (Main Stacks)
Metz, Christian.
Langage et cinéma. Paris:
Librairie Larousse, [1971]. 223 p.
791.43 M825c:E (English Library)
Morin, Edgar.
The cinema, or, The imaginary
man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2005. xxxix, 292 p.
Original French version (1958 edition) at 791.43 M83C1958 (Main Stacks)
Le cinéma; ou, L'homme imaginaire, essai d'anthropologie sociologique.Collection "Arguments"
6. [Paris] : Éditions de minuit, [1958, c1956]. 250 p. with illustrations.
791.43 R152f (Main Stacks)
Rancière, Jacques.
La fable
cinématographique. [Paris] : Seuil, c2001. 243 p. with illustrations.
305.8 R752c (Education Library)
Rouch, Jean.
Ciné-ethnography.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2003. viii, 400 p. with illustrations.
Recent dissertations can be an excellent source for current research on French film and also for bibliographic references. Dissertations are available through ProQuest Digital Dissertations, which can be accessed via Online Research Resources. You can then search for your topic through the ProQuest database.
Q. 791.4309 In82000 (English Library Ref. and Undergraduate Library Ref.)
Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast. International dictionary of films and filmmakers. 4th
ed. Detroit: St. James Press, c2000. 4 v.: illustrated.
Open Directory Project: Directors
This site offers links to biographies, filmographies, and other information about directors from France and other countries. Users can browse for directors' names by clicking on the first letter of the filmmakers' last names or perform searches for specific names.
Wikipedia: French Film Directors
This page links to Wikipedia entries on 452 French film directors. Entries usually include biographical information, filmographies, bibliographies of works about these directors, and links to external websites about them.
791.43023303 R767d (Main Stacks)
Roux, Stéphane.
Dictionnaire des réalisateurs
français. Paris : Dualpha, c2002. 459 p.
The alphabetically-arranged entries on French directors (as well as on several Belgians and a few Americans who have made films in France) in this dictionary provide basic biographical information as well as filmographies.
791.430944 B85v (Main Stacks)
Buache, Freddy.
Vingt-cinq ans de cinéma
français: Parcours croisés 1979-2003. Lausanne: L'âge d'homme, 2005. 433 p. with
illustrations.
Written as a "critic's journal" rather than organized as a dictionary, the entries in this book discuss late 20th-century directors in terms of the themes and styles of their films. Indexes of directors and of film titles at the end of the volume help users to find specific filmmakers and films of interest.
791.430944 N622 (Main Stacks)
Prédal, René, dir.
900 cinéastes français
d'aujourd'hui: dictionnaire. Collection "Septième art", 85. [Paris]: Cerf : Télérama, c1988.
515 p.
This volume offers biographies, filmographies, critical analyses, and bibliographies for 900 French filmmakers, each of whom directed at least one feature-length film between 1970 and the dictionary's publication in 1988.
791.43...
French Film Directors series.
Searching for the series title "French film directors" in the UIUC online catalog will lead you to the records of 15 books from this series, published between 1998 and 2004. The call number for these books starts with 791.43... and most of them are housed in the Literatures and Languages Library.
791.430232092 L496c (Main Stacks)
Chantier, Pascal and Jean-Charles Lemeunier.
Patrice, Leconte et les
autres. Paris: Séguier, 2001. 573 p. with illustrations.
Chantal Akerman
The website of The European Graduate School of Switzerland provides a biography of Akerman,
a bibliography of books and articles by and about her, a listing of her films, and citations of
interviews conducted with her.
VIDREC 791.430233092 C363 (Undergraduate Media Collection)
Akerman, Chantal. Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman [videorecording]. [New York, NY]:
First Run/Icarus Films, 1996.
Robert Bresson
This site from Masters of Cinema.org currently includes the texts of several interviews with
Bresson and of articles about him; reviews of DVD releases of his work; several film posters and
other graphics; listings of Bresson works available on DVD, video, and laserdisc; citations of
several books about Bresson and his work; Bresson-related news (such as new books about Bresson or
retrospectives of his films); and links to several online articles/essays about him.
791.43 B755p (Oak Street Facility)
Provoyeur, Jean-Louis.
Le cinéma de Robert Bresson:
de l'effet de réel à l'effet de sublime. Champs visuels. Paris: Harmattan, c2003. 367 p.
A discussion of how Bresson's cinema distinguishes itself from the literature that inspired it, this work explains the differences between telling a story (récit) and showing it (montage). Includes a filmography of Bresson's works and a bibliography of interviews with Bresson, books and articles about him, and more general works about literature and cinema.
René Clair
A brief biography and filmography, with links to information about each film, from Films de
France.com.
791.43 C543D (Main Stacks)
Dale, R.C.
The films of René Clair.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, c1986. 2 vols with illustrations.
791.430233 R292 (Literatures and Languages)
Herpe, Noel and Emmanuelle Toulet, dirs.
René Clair ou le Cinéma à la
lettre. Paris: Association Française de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma, 2000. 279 p. with
illustrations.
These proceedings from the René Clair conference held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in November 1998 are organized into the following sections, which demonstrate Clair's versatility as a writer and director: "De l'écrit à l'écran," "Du muet au parlant," "De la France à l'Amérique," and "Du retour aux détours." The credentials of the contributors, all specialists in French cinema, are included at the end of the volume.
Jean Cocteau
Films de France.com provides a biography and filmography of Cocteau.
845C64 BM6692003 (Main Stacks)
Miomandre, Philippe de. Moi,
Jean Cocteau: biographie.
Paris : AKR, 2003. 234 p. with illustrations.
This biography of Cocteau explores his work as a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and poet in the context of other artists of his time. Includes many beautiful stills from Cocteau's films, along with other illustrations. The list of Cocteau's works at the end of the volume includes a listing of his films as well.
Claire Denis
The European Graduate School of Switzerland offers a biography and bibliography, as well as
photos, a video of one of Denis' lectures for the EGS and a few Denis quotes.
791.43082 F649t1996 (Literatures and Languages Library)
Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy.
To desire differently:
feminism and the French cinema. Expanded ed. New York: Columbia University Press, c1996. xii,
379 p. with illustrations.
Includes three main sections on Dulac, Marie Epstein, and Agnès Varda.
Julien Duvivier
A biography and filmography from Films de France.com.
791.430944092 D957b (Main Stacks)
Bonnefille, Eric.
Julien Duvivier: le mal aimant
du cinéma français. Paris: Harmattan, c2002. 2 volumes with illustrations.
791.430944092 D957d (Main Stacks)
Desrichard, Yves.
Julien Duvivier: cinquante ans
de noirs destins. Courbevoie: Durante; Paris: BiFi, [2001]. 263 p. with illustrations.
Marie Epstein
The British Film Institute provides basic biographical information on writer/director Marie
Epstein as well as her filmography (see link in left sidebar).
791.43082 F649t1996 (Literatures and Languages)
Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy.
To desire differently:
feminism and the French cinema. Expanded ed. New York: Columbia University Press, c1996. xii,
379 p. with illustrations.
Includes three main sections on Epstein, Germaine Dulac, and Agnès Varda.
Jean-Luc Godard
The British Film Institute offers a brief biography and selected filmography of Godard,
access to writing on Godard, a list of Godard films available for rent from the Institute, and
links to several other websites about Godard.
"Cinema=Jean-Luc Godard=Cinema"
This extensive website includes a filmography of Godard's work with links to reviews and
websites about specific films; academic and popular essays; numerous interviews with Godard and
with others who were influenced by him; and information on some of Godard's colleagues.
VIDREC 791.43653 J569 (Undergraduate Media Collection)
Godard, Jean-Luc.
JLG/JLG. [videorecording]
Sykesville, Md. : Cinema Parallel [distributor], c1996. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
791.43 G54fo (Literatures and Languages)
Temple, Michael, James S. Williams, and Michael Witt.
For Ever Godard. London:
Black Dog Publishing Ltd., 2004. 461 p. with illustrations.
Inspired by an international conference called "For Ever Godard," held at the Tate Modern in London in June 2001, this collection of essays is divided into the following sections: "Work and Works," "Form and Figure," "Sound and Music," and "History and Memory." Includes a selective bibliography and an index of names and film titles.
791.430233 G54m (Literatures and Languages)
MacCabe, Colin.
Godard: A Portrait of the
Artist at Seventy. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. 432 p. with illustrations.
This biography of Godard begins in the first chapter with a history of the Monods (Godard's maternal family), continues with Godard's arrival in Paris and introduction to the world of cinema as a young man, then discusses New Wave cinema, the student revolution of 1968, and its aftermath, and concludes with a memoir of the author's frequent meetings with Godard during the 1980s and 1990s. There are a filmography (with definitions of the standard positions on a film crew); a select bibliography; and an index of film titles, proper names, and topics at the end of the volume.
791.430233 G54g (Main Stacks)
Sterritt, David, ed.
Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews.
Conversations with Filmmakers Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. 203 p.
with illustrations.
This collection of interviews conducted by several critics, scholars, and journalists who met with Godard at different points in his career is intended to show the diversity of his work. Includes a chronology of Godard's life, a filmography, and an index of proper names, film titles, and topics.
791.43 G54JE (Undergraduate Library)
Godard, Jean-Luc. Godard on Godard: critical writings. New York: Viking Press, [1972]. 292 p. with illustrations. Translations of original French essays from La gazette du cinéma and Les cahiers du cinéma.
Nelly Kaplan
A brief biography and filmography of Kaplan, provided by The New York Times and All Movie
Guide.
791.430233 K141n (Literatures and Languages)
Calle-Gruber, Mireille and Pascale Risterucci, eds.
Nelly Kaplan: le verbe et la
lumière. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004. 215 p. with illustrations.
This collection of texts about director, screenwriter, author, and poet Nelly Kaplan include an essay by Kaplan herself, a letter to Kaplan from André Breton (written in 1957), and several essays by others familiar with Kaplan's work. Includes a bibliography and a filmography as well as an index of proper names.
Mathieu Kassovitz
Kassovitz's personal, French/English website includes filmographies of the works he has
directed and acted in, information on his private production company (composed of himself and his
father), news, and a blog.
The
Lumière Brothers (les frères Lumière)
This web page serves as a basic introduction to the life and work of brothers Auguste and
Louis Lumière.
778.53092244 R513F (Main Stacks)
Rittaud-Hutinet, Jacques.
Les frères Lumière:
l'invention du cinéma. [Paris]: Flammarion, c1995. 390 p.
778.530922 C374A (Main Stacks)
Chardère, Bernard.
Au pays des Lumière.
Coédition Institut Lumière / Actes sud. Lyon: Institut Lumière; [Arles]: Actes Sud, 1995. 101 p.
with black-and-white and color illustrations.
DVD 791.43 L971k (Undergraduate Media Collection)
The Lumière Brothers' first films [videorecording]. New York: Kino on Video; [Chatsworth, CA:
Image Entertainment [distributor], c1998.
This 61-minute DVD offers a "look at the birth of the motion picture through 85 of the more than 1,500 films made by the Lumière Brothers between 1895 and 1897. These films include views of Moscow, New York, Paris, Saigon, and Jerusalem; vignettes of life in France; and comedy shorts." Commentary in English and French.
Louis Malle
This official website on Malle, produced by Nouvelles Editions de Films, provides a
biography, annotated filmography with film posters, citations of books by and about Malle, news,
and soundtracks and DVDs available for purchase from NEF.
791.43 M296f (Literatures and Languages)
Frey, Hugo.
Louis Malle. French Film
Directors Series. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004. 163 p.
From the French Film Directors Series, this book discusses the films of Louis Malle, one of the most prolific directors in post-war international cinema. Malle (1932-95) worked in French independent production as well as in the U.S. and directed fictional films and documentaries. Frey discusses Malle's experience as a filmmaker during the turbulent times of the New Wave, May '68, and the 1970s, Malle's work in the U.S. and his return to France, his aesthetic vision, his politics, his views of history, and the "primal scenes" of his films. Includes a filmography, a select bibliography, and an index of film titles, proper names, and topics.
791.430233092 M295b (Main Stacks)
Billard, Pierre.
Louis Malle: Le rebelle
solitaire. [Paris?]: Plon, c2003. 580 p. with illustrations.
This detailed biography presents Malle as a precursor of the New Wave who has never received his due as such. Includes Malle's family tree, a bibliography, filmography, and indexes of proper names and film titles.
Chris Marker
A biography, filmography, bibliography, and list of web resources, provided by Senses of
Cinema.com.
Georges Méliès
A basic biography of this early filmmaker, with a link to his filmography.
778.530924 M484M (Main Stacks)
Malthête-Méliès, Madeleine, dir.
Méliès et la naissance du
spectacle cinématographique. Colloque de Cerisy. Paris : Klincksieck, 1984. 239 p. with
illustrations.
791.43 M48J (Main Stacks)
Jenn, Pierre.
Georges Méliès cinéaste: le
montage cinématographique chez Georges Méliès. Collection Ça/Cinema. Paris: Editions Albatros,
c1984. 172 p. with illustrations.
Jean Renoir
Senses of Cinema.com offers a fairly detailed biography and filmography of Renoir as well as
a select bibliography of works by and about this renowned director.
791.43 R295ph (Oak Street Facility)
Philippe, Claude-Jean.
Jean Renoir: Une vie en
oeuvres. Paris Grasset, c2005. 460 p.
This biography is based on the director's writings (interviews, autobiography, correspondance, and the book he wrote about his father) and his films; the author looks for common threads in Renoir's work and reveals some of the secrets behind it, recounting several anecdotes about the making of Renoir's films. Includes a chronology at the end of the volume.
791.43 R295o (Literatures and Languages and Oak Street Facility)
O'Shaughnessy, Martin.
Jean Renoir. French Film
Directors. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. 251 p.
This offering from the French Film Directors Series treats one of the most influential directors in the history of French cinema, from his work on silent and early sound films, through the Popular Front years and Renoir américain to his later films. Includes a detailed filmography; a select bibliography; and an index of names, film titles, and topics.
791.43 R295R1 (Main Stacks)
Renoir, Jean.
Lettres d'Amérique. Paris:
Presses de la Renaissance, c1984. 358 p.
791.43 R295R (Main Stacks and Oak Street)
Renoir, Jean.
Ma vie et mes films.
[Paris:] Flammarion, [1974]. 262 p. with illustrations.
791.43 R295S (Literatures and Languages and Undergraduate Libraries)
Sesonske, Alexander.
Jean Renoir, the French films,
1924-1939. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980. xii, 463 p. with
illustrations.
791.43 R295B (Main Stacks and Undergraduate Library)
Bazin, André.
Jean Renoir. Paris:
Editions Champ libre, 1971. 285 p.
791.43 R295F (Main Stacks)
Faulkner, Christopher.
The social cinema of Jean
Renoir. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. x, 210 p.
016.79143 R29F (Main Stacks)
Faulkner, Christopher.
Jean Renoir, a guide to
references and resources. Boston: G. K. Hall, c1979. xvi, 356 p.
Jacques Rivette
"The goal of this site is to disseminate materials on Rivette's films so both the serious
scholar and the simply curious have access to items that are out of print, rare, or unavailable."
The site includes a detailed filmography, access to interviews with Rivette and to essays and
criticism, and a bibliography of writings by Rivette (a bibliography of works about him is said to
be in the works).
791.43 R525d (Main Stacks)
Deschamps, Hélène.
Jacques Rivette: théâtre,
amour, cinéma. L'art en bref. Paris: Harmattan, 2001. 117 p.
Eric Rohmer
AllMovie.com provides a biography and filmography of Rohmer, plus a list of awards his
movies have won.
791.43 R636c (Main Stacks)
Crisp, C.G.
Eric Rohmer: Realist and
Moralist. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
A study of Rohmer's work up to the late 1980s, this book includes discussions of Rohmer's critical writings, the origins of his "contes moraux" ("moral tales"), the Comedies and Proverbs series, and the films La Collectionneuse, Ma Nuit chez Maud, Le Genou de Claire, L'Amour l'après-midi, La Marquise d'O..., Perceval, Le Beau Mariage, Pauline à la plage, and Nuits de la pleine lune. At the back of the volume are a bibliography of writings by and about Rohmer and his films, a detailed filmography, and an index of proper names, film titles, and topics.
Jean Rouch
This web page from Documentary Educational Resources offers a biography, filmography, and
bibliography, as well as links to additional resources on Rouch.
305.8 R752c (Education Library)
Rouch, Jean.
Ciné-ethnography.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2003. viii, 400 p. with illustrations.
Rouch's essays and interviews translated from French to English.
VIDREC 305.80092 R752 (Undergraduate Media Collection)
Diawara, Manthia.
Rouch in reverse
[videorecording]. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, c1995. 1 videocassette (51 min.)
French ethnologist/filmmaker, Jean Rouch discusses his work with Manthia Diawara including clips from his documentaries and films. In English and French with English subtitles.
Bertrand Tavernier
A biography, filmography, and bibliography of works by and about Tavernier from Senses of
Cinema.com.
791.43 T198r (Main Stacks)
Raspiengeas, Jean-Claude.
Bertrand Tavernier.
[Paris]: Flammarion, c2001. 545 p.
Based on Tavernier's archives and correspondance, to which the director granted the author open access, and interviews with about 100 actors, filmmakers, and friends of Tavernier conducted over a three-year period, this biography traces Tavernier's life and work from his childhood fascination with the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s to his founding of the cine-club "Nickel-Odéon" in the 1960s to his filmmaking in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
This French-language website offers a chronology of Truffaut's life and work, a filmography, a bibliography of works by and about Truffaut, images of several posters of Truffaut films, commentary on music used in Truffaut's films, music clips, and more.
791.43 T76di (Main Stacks)
Baecque, Antoine de and Arnaud Guigue, dirs.
Le dictionnaire Truffaut
[Paris]: Martinière, c2004. 431 p. with illustrations.
Q.791.43 T768Yl (Literatures and Languages)
Le Berre, Carole.
Truffaut au travail.
Paris: Cahiers du cinema, 2004. 319 p. with black-and-white and color photographs and film
stills.
Following an introduction to Truffaut's work as a whole, this volume offers essays on 23 of his films with numerous photographs and film stills. Also includes a biography of Truffaut, a filmography of his works, and a bibliography of books by and about Truffaut.
791.43092 T76g (Main Stacks)
Guigue, Arnaud.
François Truffaut: la culture
et la vie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. 269 p.
An analysis of Truffaut's films that demonstrates Truffaut's fascination both with cultural masterpieces of the past and with the culture of contemporary daily life, this work discusses how Truffaut portrays the influence of the dead on the living, the function of education in the acquisition of culture, writing as production of culture, the influence of culture on personality, translation as a form of culture, and culture as a defense against fatalism and determinism. Includes a filmography as well as a bibliography of works by and about Truffaut.
791.43 T76ba2001 (Main Stacks) -- Baecque, Antoine de and Serge Toubiana. François Truffaut. Revised edition. Paris: Gallimard, 2001. 876 p. with illustrations.
DVD 791.43 T768f (Undergraduate Reserves)
Kurcfeld, Michael, producer.
François Truffaut
[videorecording]: 25 years, 25 films. [Santa Monica, CA]: Voyager Co., c1993.
791.43082 F649t1996 (Literatures and Languages)
Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy.
To desire differently:
feminism and the French cinema. Expanded ed. New York: Columbia University Press, c1996. xii,
379 p. with illustrations.
Includes three main sections on Varda, Germaine Dulac, and Marie Epstein.
VIDREC 791.43023 Ag62 (Undergraduate Media Collection)
Brockway, Merrill, dir. Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag. Lions and cannibals [videorecording].
Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television, c1977. 1 videocassette (27 min.)
"This conversation explores the cinema approaches and thinking of film directors Agnes Varda and Susan Sontag, who were among the small group of artists represented in the prestigious seventh annual New York Film Festival (1969). Here they discuss their ideas and their films with Jack Kroll, senior editor at Newsweek magazine. Excerpts from both their films illustrate the conversation"--Container label.
Jean Vigo
A biography, filmography, bibliography, and list of web resources on Vigo from Senses of
Cinema.com.
791.43 V68g1998 (Undergrad)
Gomes, P. E. Sailes.
Jean Vigo. Revised
edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1998. 266 p. with illustrations and portraits. (English
translation of the 1972 French-language work.)
791.43 V68J (Main Stacks)
Lherminier, Pierre.
Jean Vigo, ouvre de cinéma:
films, scénarios, projets de films, textes sur le cinéma. Paris: Cinémathèque française:
Lherminier, c1985. 494 p. with illustrations.
Yamina Bachir-Chouikh
Biosstars.com offers a mini-biography and filmography of this Algerian director.
Mehdi Charef
AlloCine's web page on Charef offers a photo, biography, and filmography of Charef with
links to entries on his films.
791 V568m (Main Stacks)
Venturini, Fabrice. Mehdi Charef: conscience esthétique de la génération beur. Biarritz:
Séguier, 2005. 115 p. with illustrations.
Ziad Doueiri
IMDb's listing of this young Lebanese director's awards, plus a filmography with links to
information about films on which he has worked as a cameraman, director, and/or writer.
Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina
Africiné.org provides a brief biography and filmography of this Algerian director and
screenwriter.
Moknèche Nadir
Africultures.com supplies a biography of Algerian director Nadir and information on his
films to date.
016.7914375 SCH55S (Literatures & Languages Ref. and Africana Ref.)
Schmidt, Nancy J.
Sub-Saharan African films and
filmmakers, 1987-1992: an annotated bibliography. London; New Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers,
1994. ix, 468 p.
791.430230922 P47T (Literatures & Languages Ref. and Undergraduate Library)
Pfaff, Françoise.
Twenty-five Black African
filmmakers: a critical study, with filmography and bio-bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press,
1988. xii, 332 p. with illustrations and portraits.
Moussa Sene
Absa
A brief biography and filmography of this Senegalese director from Africultures.com.
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
A biography from IMDb, with links to entries on Bekolo's films.
Djibril Diop Mambéty
The Djibril Diop Mambéty Memorial website includes a biography, an interview with Mambéty, a
filmography, and film clips.
790 D623n (Main Stacks)
Niang, Sada.
Djibril Diop Mambéty: un
cinéaste à contre-courant. Collection Images plurielles. Paris: L'Harmattan, c2002. 239 p.
Mweze Ngangura
The CongOnline biography of Congolese director Ngangura, who made La vie est belle with
Belgian director Benoît Lamy.
Ousmane Sembène
A biography, bibliography, and filmography provided by Emory University.
791.43 Ou8g (Literatures and Languages)--Gadjigo, Samba, Ralph H. Faulkingham, Thomas Cassirer, and Reinhard Sander. Ousmane Sembène: Dialogues with Critics and Writers. Amherst: Univ. of Massachussetts Press, 1993. 123 p. with illustrations.
Includes critical perspectives on Sembène's prose fiction and films, a writers' forum on writing and language, Sembène's remarks after the showing of his film Camp de Thiaroye, and an interview with Sembène by Sada Niang. There are bibliographies of works by and about Sembène and a filmography at the end of the volume.
Denys
Arcand
This web page from The Canadian Encyclopedia offers a biography of Arcand with links to a
few other sites on this celebrated director.
791.430233 AR21L (Literatures and Languages)
Loiselle, André and Brian McIlroy.
Auteur/provocateur: the films
of Denys Arcand. Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 45. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1995. vii, 195 p. with illustrations.
Michel Brault
NanoukFilms.com offers a biography and a filmography of Brault here.
François
Girard
This entry from the online Film Reference Library includes a biography and filmography of
Girard.
Claude
Jutra
This web page from The Film Reference Library provides a biography of Jutra and a
filmography of his works.
791.430232 J987l (Main Stacks and Undergraduate Library)
Leach, Jim.
Claude Jutra: filmmaker.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xii, 306 p. with portraits.
Jean-Claude
Lauzon
This web page from The Film Reference Library offers a biography and a filmography of
Lauzon.
Robert Lepage
This web page from the CBC Archives includes basic biographical information, radio and TV
clips about Lepage, and links to a few other websites about him.
791.430233092 L55d (Literatures and Languages)
Dundjerovic, Aleksandar. The cinema of Robert Lepage: the poetics of memory. London; New York: Wallflower, 2003. ix, 181 p. with illustrations.
Léa
Pool
The Film Reference Library provides a biography and filmography of Léa Pool here.
Euzhan Palcy
The official website for Martinique-born director Euzhan Palcy includes her biography, a
filmography, and a photo gallery.
Raoul Peck
This web page offers a biography of Haitian director Raoul Peck, including the titles of his
films to date and the names of the multiple awards he won for Lumumba.
Luis Buñuel
Senses of Cinema.com offers a biography, filmography, bibliography, and list of additional
web resources on Spanish-born director Buñuel.
791.43 B88E (Literatures and Languages)
Edwards, Gwynne.
The discreet art of Luis Buñuel:
a reading of his films. London; Boston: Marion Boyars, 1982. 288 p. with illustrations.
791.4309091 W673F (Literatures and Languages)
Williams, Linda.
Figures of desire: a theory and
analysis of surrealist film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1981. xv, 229 p. with
illustrations.
Michael Haneke
A biography, filmography, bibliography, and list of additional web resources on
Austrian-born Haneke, provided by Senses of Cinema.com.
Dmitri Kirsanov
A brief biography and filmography of Estonian-born director Kirsanov (a.k.a. Kirsanoff),
with links to information on specific films, from IMDb.
Man Ray
Film Reference.com provides biographical information, a filmography, and a bibliography of
American-born photographer and director Man Ray.
G.W. Pabst
This biography of Bohemian-born stage- and screen-director Pabst links to a complete
filmography.
Atwell, Lee. G. W. Pabst. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. 184 p. with illustrations.
Rau´l Ruiz
Film Reference.com offers biographical information, a filmography, and a bibliography of
Chilean-born director Ruiz here.
LABO.10/2004.37 (Main Stacks Mezzanine--Request Only) -- Buci-Glucksmann, Christine ... [et al.] Conversaciones con Rau´l Ruiz. Santiago, Chile: Universidad Diego Portales, 2003. 179 p.
Jean-Marie
Straub and Danièle Huillet
Biographical information, a filmography, and a bibliography of French-German Straub and his
French spouse Huillet. The couple directed films together in France, Germany, and Italy.
791.430230922 B651a (Main Stacks)
Böser, Ursula.
The art of seeing, the art of
listening: the politics of representation in the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.
Frankfurt am Main New York: P. Lang, 2005. 241 p. with illustrations.
Q.791.43 ST822F (Main Stacks)
Les Films de Jean-Marie
Straub, Danièle Huillet: Amerika/Rapports de classes/Klassenverhältnisse d'après Franz Kafka,
Octobre 1984. Paris: NEF Diffusion; Toulouse: Ombres, [1984]. 60 p. with illustrations.
016.7914375 B484F (Undergraduate Library)
Biggs, Melissa E.
French films, 1945-1993: a
critical filmography of the 400 most important releases. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1996.
vii, 357 p. with illustrations.
791.43750944 (Undergraduate Library)
Buss, Robin.
The French through their
films. New York: Ungar, 1988. 165 p. with illustrations. Filmography: p. 91-156.
791.4372... (Literatures and Languages)
French Film Guides series.
A search for the series title "French Film Guides Series" will lead you to the catalog records of six different volumes, each focused on a particular film (Casque d'or, Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Corbeau, Alphaville, Diaboliques, and La Reine Margot). These books were published from 2005 to 2007, start with the call number 791.4372... , and are housed in the English Library.
Q.791.4375 P217G (Literatures and Languages and Undergraduate Libraries)
Paris, James Reid.
The great French films. 1st
ed. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, c1983. 277 p. with illustrations.
791.430944 F8442 (Literatures and Languages)
Mazdon, Lucy, ed.
France on film: reflections on
popular French cinema. London: Wallflower, 2001. viii, 180 p.
This work includes essays on Jean de Florette, La Femme Nikita, Les Visiteurs, Karim Dridi's Bye-bye, Gazon maudit, Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noel?, Chacun cherche son chat, Un héros très discret, Ma vie en rose, Marius et Jeannette, and Catherine Breillat's Romance. A bibliography and an index are also provided.
791.4303 D561 (Main Stacks) -- Horvilleur, Gilles, dir. Dictionnaire des personnages du cinéma. Paris: Bordas, 1988. 557 p. with illustrations.
Alphabetically-arranged entries on characters and stereotypical roles from the world of film, beginning with "abbé (voir prêtre)," "Abbott et Costello," "académicien," and "accusé," and ending with "zoophile," "Zorba," "Zorro," and "Zoulou." Includes indexes of actors and films mentioned throughout the volume.
International Movie Database
This large, popular site allows searching for information by film title, keywords,
characters, actors, and more.
Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers
This website offers a detailed definition of "cinematography," an alphabetized index to
information on internationally-known cinematographers, a list of books and DVDs on cinematography,
and links to related sites of interest. It is searchable by name of cinematographer or keyword.
ArtsLynx International Film Resources
This directory provides links to websites related to the following aspects of cinema: acting
and performance resources, business resources, design and technology resources, equipment and
supplies, employment in film and video, history and research resources, magazines and journals,
mega-sites, miscellaneous materials, organizations, schools, screen writing resources, sound and
music resources, and film theory and criticism.
Cité Cinéma
This site offers a wealth of information on international cinema, including: a history of
cinema; photos, brief biographies and filmographies of directors, actors, and composers; posters
and synopses of films released from 1895 to the present; the terminology and basic techniques of
cinematography; and news about current films.
CinéArtistes.com
This online encyclopedia of international cinema includes biographies and filmographies of
795 figures from the world of film: directors and lead and supporting actors, including individuals
who may not have been very well-known and those who may have been largely forgotten. Includes
e-mails from users of the site and links to other sites of interest.
Le Ciné-club de Caen
Includes complete filmographies of 264 renowned international directors and detailed
analyses of nearly 400 films. Also provides a history of cinema that includes information on
specific national cinemas (French, Japanese, American) and various cinematic movements, quizzes on
images from movies, many links to other websites about film, and more.
Ciné-Studies
An online French-language cinema journal that serves as a forum where undergraduates and
graduate students can publish papers about international film.
"Film on the Web"-"European
Cinema"-"French Cinema"
"Film on the Web" includes sections with links to general online resources on European
Cinema and French Cinema. Brief annotations are given for most.
filmarchives online
This database provides access to the moving image collections of several European film
archives. Currently, the films of five partner archives are searchable via this website, which is
new as of June 2007. Parts of the collections of eleven additional archives will become accessible
here in 2007, for a total of around 20,000 films.
French Film Stars
This site from the University of Sheffield French Department provides profiles of nearly 200
Francophone film stars, film descriptions, and a database of references of radio, TV, and press
coverage of Francophone movie stars from 1949 to the present.
Films de France
This commercial site, which can be read in French or English, provides information on French
films, actors, and directors. It also includes a bibliography; a short quiz; news on film, other
entertainment, and French culture; and a DVD shop.
Cinema of France
This site includes information on the history of French cinema, film genres, selected film
titles, critics and curators, actors, and directors.
Le Festival de Cannes
This site, which may be viewed in French or English, includes information on the May 2007
Cannes film festival as well as a history and chronology of the festival, archives of past winners
from the 59 previous Cannes festivals, and more.
Commission Nationale du Film France
This French-English site is of interest to filmmakers as well as to film enthusiasts. Users
can search for films shot in particular regions of France; filmmakers can look for French locales
fitting criteria of their choice. Photos of many of these locales are included. Also includes a
list of films currently in production throughout the country, a list of links useful to filmmakers,
and a list of foreign films that were popular in France from 2000 through 2005.
Africiné.org
"Le site de la Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique" includes information
on over 2,700 African films as well as on numerous directors, actors, producers, and distributors.
Alphabetical indexes in each category as well as multiple search options make for easy
browsing.
Northern Stars
This website bills itself as "the best database for information about Canadian actors,
directors, and movies." It also includes information on composers and screenwriters, film reviews,
news, trivia, and more.
The Film Reference Library (Toronto)
This website, hosted by the Toronto International Film Festival Group, provides access to
the world's most extensive collection of English-language materials related to Canadian film. You
can also search the Canadian Film Encyclopedia here.
Carleton College's Research Guide to
Cinema and Media Studies
This user-friendly guide lists several sources for ready reference and for film reviews, in
particular.
Harvard College Library's French
and Francophone Literature Library and Internet Research Guide: Selected Film Sources
This section of the larger guide to French/Francophone sources includes online databases,
retrospective indexes, subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, bibliographies, specialized sources,
and links to selected internet sites. Many of the citations are annotated.
San Diego State University's Subject
Guide for Film Resources
This site offers a wealth of information on film studies sources, covering many different
aspects of cinema (criticism and reviews, biographies of directors and actors, film festivals and
awards, and more).
Temple University's Film Studies Subject Guide
Especially useful for its descriptions of databases (in the "find articles" section) and its
explanations of where to find film reviews.
University of Oregon French Literature and
Cinema Research Guide
This page treats literature as well as cinema, but the databases mentioned in the "Finding
Articles" section are useful for research in either field, and the annotations to the works on
French and Francophone film are especially helpful
Yale University's
Research Guide in Film Studies: International Cinema
Includes suggestions of terms for subject searches of library catalogs, resources for
statistical information on international cinema, and links to several other useful websites.
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