Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 by Colin Crisp

Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 by Colin Crisp

""Crisp's wide-ranging exploration of the first decade of sound cinema in France build significantly on his pivotal industrial study, The Classic French Cinema 1930-1960.. this is one of the most stimulating works on French film written over the last decade. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty."" --S./P>--S. Liebman, CUNY Graduate Center""Choice"" (01/01/2003)

Before his recent retirement, Colin Crisp was Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, which he joined when it first opened in 1975, and where he served as Chairman and Dean of Humanities, and later as Acting Provost and Director of the Queensland College of Art. He has published a number of books on the French cinema, and notably The Classic French Cinema 1930-1960, which the present work supplements by its consideration of genre and myth in the first decade of the French sound cinema.