French cinema in close-up
La vie d'un acteur pour moi : illustrated mini-dictionary of actors and actresses of the French cinema
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Author
Contributions
- Block, Marcelline - Contributor
- Batlay, Jenny - Contributor
- Bratusek, Igor - Contributor
Publication
2015 - Phaeton Publishing Limited, Ireland
Language
English
Word Count
109,500 words, Guess
Page Count
438 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26888418M
- ISBN-139781908420114
- ISBN-101908420111
- OCLC Control Number908639823
- OCLC Control Numberfrenchcinemaincl0000abec
Classifications
- LCCPN2638 .A243 2015
Description
An insight into French film through its actors: profiles of 175 actors and actresses of the French Cinema, illustrated with caricatures of each actor by Jenny BATLAY and Igor BRATUSEK. - Not just biographies, but personal sketches of the actors and actresses, looking at their personalities, acting, and careers. The book is presented alphabetically in mini-dictionary form, and its contributors include academics from around the world - from universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Cyprus, France, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States - as well as journalists, film curators, and lovers of French cinema, both francophones and Francophiles. It contains a comprehensive alphabetical Index of 2,200 Films - mostly French Films (with their alternative English titles where these were issued), as well as American and European films in which the profiled French actors have appeared. Accurate biographical details (from original records) are provided, including birth names for those actors with a stage name different to their birth names. Contains primary source material.
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