Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema

by Edward Baron Turk

Marcel Carn symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished almost completely to the American film industry. The first critical biography of this director of classic films, including the epic historical romance Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise), relates the saga of Carn 's meteoric rise in the 1930s and his decline from critical grace after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674865596
• ISBN13: 9780674865594
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 505 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"