{"product_id":"continental-films-french-cinema-under-german-control-9780299339807","title":"Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control","description":"From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven employed some of the greatest French actors and most prestigious directors of the time, including Maurice Tourneur, Henri Decoin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Marcel Carn?. \u003cbr\u003e Using recently opened archival documents, including reams of testimony from the ?puration (purification) hearings conducted shortly after the war, Christine Leteux has produced the most authoritative and complete history of the company and its impact on the French film industry--both during the war and after. She captures the wide range of responses to the firm from those who were eager to work for a company whose ideology matched their own, to others who reluctantly accepted contracts out of necessity, to those who abhorred the company but felt compelled to participate in order to protect family members from Nazi reprisals. She examines not only the formation and management of Continental Films but also the personalities involved, the fraught and often deadly political circumstances of the period, the critical reception of the films, and many of the more notorious and controversial events. \u003cbr\u003e As Bertrand Tavernier explains in his foreword, Leteux overturns many of the preconceptions and clich?s that have come to be associated with Continental Films. Published to rave reviews in French and translated by the author into English, this work shatters expectations and will reinvigorate study of a lesser-known but significant period of French film history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristine Leteux is the author of the biographies \u003ci\u003eAlbert Capellani: Cinéaste du romanesque\u003c\/i\u003e (self-translated into English as \u003ci\u003eAlbert Capellani: Pioneer of the Silent Screen\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eMaurice Tourneur: Réalisateur sans frontières\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the translator of several books by British film historian and filmmaker Kevin Brownlow and the winner of the Raymond Chirat Prize, awarded by the Lumière Institute in Lyon.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554561134866,"sku":"9780299339807","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7f3e2805-5d42-4c5d-9e5a-ea75dba48458.jpg?v=1731720098","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/continental-films-french-cinema-under-german-control-9780299339807","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}