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dc.contributor.authorSmoodin, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-27 11:35:42
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T06:48:08Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T06:48:08Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier1007895
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22283
dc.description.abstractIn Paris in the Dark Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on a wealth of journalistic sources, Smoodin recounts the ways films moved through the city, the favored stars, and what it was like to go to the movies in a city with hundreds of cinemas. In a single week in the early 1930s, moviegoers might see Hollywood features like <i>King Kong</i> and <i>Frankenstein</i>, the new Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier movies, and any number of films from Italy, Germany, and Russia. Or they could frequent the city's ciné-clubs, which were hosts to the cinéphile subcultures of Paris. At other times, a night at the movies might result in an evening of fascist violence, even before the German Occupation of Paris, while after the war the city's cinemas formed the space for reconsolidating French film culture. In mapping the cinematic geography of Paris, Smoodin expands understandings of local film exhibition and the relationships of movies to urban space.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticismen_US
dc.subject.othercinematic geography
dc.subject.otheraudience
dc.subject.otherfilm journalism
dc.subject.otherfilm distribution
dc.subject.otherexhibition
dc.subject.otherWorld War II
dc.subject.othermovie stars
dc.titleParis in the Dark
dc.title.alternativeGoing to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1215/9781478090281
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b
oapen.relation.isbn9781478007531; 9781478006923; 9781478006114
oapen.collectionToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
oapen.pages224
oapen.place.publicationDurham
oapen.notes2020-03-27 11:31:50, Funder name: University of California, Davis/ Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem TOME


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