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The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses

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Description for The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses Hardback. The Golden Age of women's films is happening right now--not here, but in France--and Mick LaSalle is your guide. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 712. Weight in Grams: 456.

Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent—a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real.

This book showcases a range ... Read more

Based on one-on-one interviews and the viewing of numerous films, Mick LaSalle has put together a fascinating profile of recent generations of French film stars and an overview of their best work. These women's insights and words illuminate his book, which will answer once and for all the two questions Americans most often have about women and the movies: Where did all the great actresses go? And how can I see their movies?

Please visit blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/09/23/rendezvous-damerique/ to see a video discussing The Beauty of the Real at the Roxie Film Festival.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804768542
SKU
V9780804768542
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99-15

About Mick Lasalle
Mick LaSalle has been the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985. He is the author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (2000) and Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man (2002), both of which were named "Book of the Month" by Turner Classic Movies. LaSalle has been a panelist at ... Read more

Reviews for The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
[T]he author identifies in French cinema a far greater fluidity about the portrayal of different phases of a woman's life. . . [I]t is written with infectious enthusiasm, and best enjoyed as a companion to the films it so highly recommends."—Muriel Zagha, Times Literary Supplement "LaSalle understands how women in French movies are allowed to be deeper, older, and more ... Read more

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