French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film

by Susan Hayward

When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a seemingly unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth and earlier centuries, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon, the Belle poque, the Revolution and further back still to seventeenth-century swashbuckler adventures and tales of mystery and revenge. Film critics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841503185
• ISBN13: 9781841503189
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Intellect (UK)
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 8.9"