From intimate pleasures to spectacular vistas : musicality and historicity in French and American 'classical' cinema of the 1930s

This thesis considers the role of spectacle in two modes of filmmaking in the French and American 'classical' cinemas of the 1930s. I examine the relationship of spectacle to the emotions and drama of musical films, and to the 'history-telling' of biopics, war films and other gen...

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Main Author: Brown, Tom
Published: University of Warwick 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524265