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The recipient of the Jay Leyda Prize in Cinema Studies from the US Anthology Film Archives, this two-volume work explores the emergence of French film theory before the essays of Andre Bazin. The anthology contains selections from 150 texts, many published in English for the first time.

(Paperback)

Examines a significant moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. This title devises an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to 'bite into' the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema.