Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2004-4

No 51-4, 2004/4 - 192 pages

A History of French Cinematography

Pages 7 to 9

Introduction

Inventing an Art

Pages 10 to 20

A History of Film Technology: The Example of Sound before “Talkies”

By Martin Barnier

Pages 21 to 38

Narrative Cinema and Popular Literary Culture: The Beginning of a Dual Culture (1908 – 1928)

Pages 39 to 57

The Relationship between Victor Hugo's Works and Their Adaptations

By Delphine Gleizes

A National Art?

Pages 58 to 77

Nationalist Cinema: The Opening of National Schools and the Inception of Patriotic Cinema (1910 – 1930)

By Christophe Gauthier

Pages 78 to 97

How Films Produced in the USA by French Directors Were Perceived in France in the Days of Blum-Byrnes

By Laurent Le Forestier

A Mass Media

Pages 98 to 114

Going to the Movies, Getting Closer to the People

By Jenny Lefcourt

Pages 115 to 134

Catholics, Cinema, and Conquering the Masses: The Turning Point at the End of the 1920s

By Dimitri Vezyroglou

Pages 135 to 151

Educational Cinema and Colonial Propaganda in Paris in the Early 1930s

By Béatrice de Pastre

Readings

Pages 152 to 161

Rethinking the 20th Century through Cinema

By Myriam Tsikounas

Pages 162 to 176

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