Transparent Illusion Image and Ideology in French Text and Film

This unique study interprets forty major French films, their texts and intertexts, analyzing them both as windows on their subject, projections of the imagination, and as frames or mirrors reflecting the cultural contexts that produced them. They are grouped in three major categories, foregrounding their relationship to history, literature or the filmmaking process itself, in ascending order of opacity and modernity. This much needed work offers not only comparative cultural perspectives on French text and film but also a better understanding of the poeties of image and ideology.Pauly, Rebecca M. is the author of 'Transparent Illusion Image and Ideology in French Text and Film', published 1993 under ISBN 9780820419305 and ISBN 0820419303.