French Cinema in Close-Up: La Vie d'un acteur pour moi - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908420111 ISBN 13: 9781908420114

Publisher: Phaeton Publishing Limited, 2015

Synopsis

Illustrated mini dictionary of actors and actresses of the French Cinema.
An insight into French film through its actors: profiles of 175 actors and actresses of the French Cinema, illustrated with caricatures of each actor by Jenny BATLAY and Igor BRATUSEK. - Not just biographies, but personal sketches of the actors and actresses, looking at their personalities, acting, and careers. The book is presented alphabetically in mini-dictionary form, and its contributors include academics from around the world - from universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Cyprus, France, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States - as well as journalists, film curators, and lovers of French cinema, both francophones and Francophiles. It contains a comprehensive alphabetical Index of 2,200 Films - mostly French Films (with their alternative English titles where these were issued), as well as American and European films in which the profiled French actors have appeared. Accurate biographical details (from original records) are provided, including birth names for those actors with a stage name different to their birth names.

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About the Author

Dr Michaël Abecassis (DEA Grenoble; D.Lang St Andrews) is a Senior Instructor in French and a College Lecturer at the University of Oxford. His academic career includes a D.Lang from the University of St Andrews in 2000, in the field of language variation and change in French, concentrating on the Parisian vernacular of 1930s French cinema. Commenced tutoring French in 1988 in the French Department of Dundee University, and subsequently employed by several British universities (Abertay, Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh, St Andrews, OxfordBrookes). In 1999, Dr Abecassis was appointed both as French Instructor (working mostly in Oxford Language Teaching Centre), and as College Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Christ Church, University, and Wadham Colleges).

Marcelline Block is a film historian, author, editor and translator. Her publications include, among others, World Film Locations: Paris; World Film Locations: Marseilles (and its French version, entitled Filmer Marseille); World Film Locations: Las Vegas; World Film Locations: Prague; World Film Locations: Boston; Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe; French Cinema and the Great War: Remembrance and Representation; French Cinema in Close-up: La vie d'un acteur pour moi; An Anthology of French Singers from A to Z: Singin' in French; Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema, and the French to English translation of Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit's Propaganda Documentaries in France: 1940-1944. Her writing has appeared in Afterall; Art Decades; the Big Picture Magazine; Cineaste; the Guardian; the Harvard French Review; Periodical; Soledad; Wages of Film, and Women in French Studies and has also been translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, and Russian. 
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Edition details

• Publisher: Phaeton Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908420111
• ISBN 13: 9781908420114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452
• Editor: Abecassis Michaël, Block Marcelline