Child of paradise : Marcel Carné and the golden age of French cinema

Author(s)

• Turk, Edward Baron

Bibliographic Information

Child of paradise : Marcel Carné and the golden age of French cinema

Edward Baron Turk

（Harvard film studies）

Harvard University Press, 1992 ,c1989

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Note

Filmography: p. [437]-444

Bibliography: p. [445]-446

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Marcel Carne symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished almost completely to the American film industry. This biography of this director of classic films, including the epic historical romance "Les Enfants du paradis" (Children of Paradise), relates the saga of Carne's meteoric rise in the 1930s and his decline from critical grace after the war. The book draws on unpublished correspondence from, among others, Jean Cocteau, Francois Truffaut and Simone Signoret, and on interviews by the author with Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Mme. Jacques Prevert, Pierre Prevert, Claude Renoir, Alexander Trauner, Truffaut and Carne himself.

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Details

• NCID: BA46264649
• ISBN:
  • 0674114612
• LCCN: 88017558
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 495 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1998.3.C37
  • DC19 : 791.43/0233/0924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Carné, Marcel
  • LCSH : Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07546039