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Free Download MaryEllen Higgins, "The A to Z of French Cinema"
English | 2009 | pages: 504 | ISBN: 081086875X | EPUB | 1,7 mb
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinématographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumière's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumière factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges Méliès, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathé. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors―Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Louis Malle―and actors―Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou.