Casque D'or: (Jacques Becker, 1952)Casque d'or's tragic love story of a golden-haired prostitute's attempt to escape a world of crime is a classic of 1950s French cinema. Sarah Leahy's guide analyzes the film, offers detailed discussions of its production and the public's response to it, and places it within the context of cinema and social history. |
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... masculinity and femininity , cinema , it seems , is frequently more concerned with the less avowable fears and desires . - psychological wounds opened up by the war and the Occupation revealing a crisis in femininity at this time of ...
... masculinity and femininity , cinema , it seems , is frequently more concerned with the less avowable fears and desires . - psychological wounds opened up by the war and the Occupation revealing a crisis in femininity at this time of ...
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... masculinity ? " contrasting with the rigidity of the other male clothing ( of the apaches , or the bourgeois visitors to the Ange Gabriel ) . Manda's gender identity shifts : on occasion his body is eroticised through the adoption of a ...
... masculinity ? " contrasting with the rigidity of the other male clothing ( of the apaches , or the bourgeois visitors to the Ange Gabriel ) . Manda's gender identity shifts : on occasion his body is eroticised through the adoption of a ...
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... masculinity and femininity . Unfortunately , at the time , this achievement was not recognised , and the film's reception in France was far from triumphant . The next part will go on to examine this reception in more detail , looking at ...
... masculinity and femininity . Unfortunately , at the time , this achievement was not recognised , and the film's reception in France was far from triumphant . The next part will go on to examine this reception in more detail , looking at ...
Contents
Production contexts | 3 |
narrative style and ideology | 36 |
Reception at home and abroad | 72 |
Copyright | |
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actors aesthetic Amélie Hélie André Andrew Ange Gabriel Antoine et Antoinette apaches authenticity Bazin Becker's film Belle Epoque Belleville Burch and Sellier Cahiers du cinéma Casque d'or casquettes characters Christian-Jaque chronotopes Classic French Cinema Claude Dauphin close-ups Clouzot contemporary costume drama critics Danard dance Dédée d'Anvers depiction Dernier atout desire director dominant Doniol-Valcroze Edouard et Caroline emphasises example Falbalas feature female femininity femme film-making film's focus France French cinema French film gang gangster gaze gender genre Georges Sadoul Gérard Philipe Gervaise Ginette Vincendeau grisbi guinguette Jacques Becker Jean Joinville L'Ecran français Leca Leca's Léonie Lettres françaises look Magnan Manèges Marie and Manda Marie's Martine Carol masculinity melodrama Micheline mise-en-scène narrative Naumann offers Paris patriarchal popular post-war prostitute Quéval Raymond realism Renoir representation Roland role scene script seen September 1952 sequence Serge Reggiani sexual shot Simone Signoret spectator star Susan Hayward tradition Vignaux women Yves Allégret