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Rififi: French Film Guide
Jim Hillier
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Description for Rififi: French Film Guide
Paperback. "Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. This companion to the film reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir. Series: Cine-File French Film Guides. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. ... Read more
"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Cine-File French Film Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848850552
SKU
V9781848850552
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About Jim Hillier
The author of this title is associate professor, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick. His publications include "City of Darkness, City of Light", "Emigre Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939", "100 Film Noirs" (with Jim Hillier), "Journeys of Desire", and "European Actors in Hollywood" (with Ginette Vincendeau).
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