The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic
transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and …

L'Atalante (1934), the second collaboration between experimental French filmmaker Jean
Vigo and composer Maurice Jaubert, has become a staple in the cinephile canon. But its …

This chapter discusses the industrial and aesthetic shifts in French cinema from the arrival of
synchronized sound films in France in 1928 to the German Occupation in 1940. In addition, it …

The study of music in films as a major strand of modern Film Studies began with a special
issue of Yale French Studies in 1980. Since then, and more particularly since the publication …

Abstract Both DW Griffith's Way Down East and Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows are
accomplished, complicated, and evocative films by historically important directors. Literary …

The period from the late 1920s to the end of the 1930s was crucial in Marcel Carné's career:
he entered the French film industry, made films now considered his masterpieces, and …

This thesis explores the theme of subjective memory as a cinematic landscape, depicted
specifically in two films, Le jour se lève (1939) and Quai des brumes (1938), by French …