Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Iowa and the author of numerous works on film theory and the history of film, including Film in the Aura of Art (Princeton).

"A perceptive, subtle account of French 'poetic realist' cinema in the 1930s."--Choice "Essential reading, this work makes a valuable contribution to scholarly research published on 1930's French cinema, [Well}-researched and informative without being over-scholarly, Andrew's evident enthusiasm for the topic cannot fail to inspire interest and enthusiasm."--French Cultural Studies

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: A Compass in the Mist of Poetic Realism2Ch. 2Impressionism and Surrealism: The Origins of an Optique24Ch. 3Adolescents in an Adolescent Industry52Ch. 4French Cinema and the Sonic Boom88Ch. 5Theatrical Models for French Films114Ch. 6The Literary and Artistic Sources of Poetic Realism148Ch. 7Demands of Realism194Ch. 8Figures of the Poetic232Ch. 9Jean Renoir: Adaptation, Institution, Auteur274Ch. 10The Myth of Poetic Realism318Ch. 11Epilogue: Le Temps des cerises and the Fruit of Regret334Appendix: Chronology of French Films Mentioned351Notes359Bibliography391Index of Film Titles397General Index401

Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Iowa and the author of numerous works on film theory and the history of film, including Film in the Aura of Art (Princeton).

"A perceptive, subtle account of French 'poetic realist' cinema in the 1930s."--Choice "Essential reading, this work makes a valuable contribution to scholarly research published on 1930's French cinema, [Well}-researched and informative without being over-scholarly, Andrew's evident enthusiasm for the topic cannot fail to inspire interest and enthusiasm."--French Cultural Studies

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: A Compass in the Mist of Poetic Realism2Ch. 2Impressionism and Surrealism: The Origins of an Optique24Ch. 3Adolescents in an Adolescent Industry52Ch. 4French Cinema and the Sonic Boom88Ch. 5Theatrical Models for French Films114Ch. 6The Literary and Artistic Sources of Poetic Realism148Ch. 7Demands of Realism194Ch. 8Figures of the Poetic232Ch. 9Jean Renoir: Adaptation, Institution, Auteur274Ch. 10The Myth of Poetic Realism318Ch. 11Epilogue: Le Temps des cerises and the Fruit of Regret334Appendix: Chronology of French Films Mentioned351Notes359Bibliography391Index of Film Titles397General Index401

Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Iowa and the author of numerous works on film theory and the history of film, including Film in the Aura of Art (Princeton).

"A perceptive, subtle account of French 'poetic realist' cinema in the 1930s."--Choice "Essential reading, this work makes a valuable contribution to scholarly research published on 1930's French cinema, [Well}-researched and informative without being over-scholarly, Andrew's evident enthusiasm for the topic cannot fail to inspire interest and enthusiasm."--French Cultural Studies

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: A Compass in the Mist of Poetic Realism2Ch. 2Impressionism and Surrealism: The Origins of an Optique24Ch. 3Adolescents in an Adolescent Industry52Ch. 4French Cinema and the Sonic Boom88Ch. 5Theatrical Models for French Films114Ch. 6The Literary and Artistic Sources of Poetic Realism148Ch. 7Demands of Realism194Ch. 8Figures of the Poetic232Ch. 9Jean Renoir: Adaptation, Institution, Auteur274Ch. 10The Myth of Poetic Realism318Ch. 11Epilogue: Le Temps des cerises and the Fruit of Regret334Appendix: Chronology of French Films Mentioned351Notes359Bibliography391Index of Film Titles397General Index401