Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Political Economy and Industrial Structure 1930-1940
2. Political Economy and Industrial Structure 1940-1960
3. Plant and Technology
4. Personnel
5. The Formation of Audiences
6. Mode of Production and Authorial Control
7. Work Practices and Stylistic Change

Conclusion: The Classic French Cinema and the New Wave

Appendix
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Film history from the introduction of sound to the beginning of the New Wave.

About the Author

Colin Crisp, Associate Professor of Film Studies in the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University, is author of Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist and François Truffaut.