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oapen-20.500.12657-222832024-03-22T19:23:25Z Paris in the Dark Smoodin, Eric cinematic geography audience film journalism film distribution exhibition World War II movie stars thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism In 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. 2020-03-27 11:35:42 2020-04-01T06:48:08Z 2020-04-01T06:48:08Z 2020 book 1007895 9781478007531; 9781478006923; 9781478006114 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22283 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478090281_OA.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/paris-in-the-dark Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090281 10.1215/9781478090281 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478007531; 9781478006923; 9781478006114 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 224 Durham 2020-03-27 11:31:50, Funder name: University of California, Davis/ Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem TOME open access
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In 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.
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