The French New Wave Cinema - a short bibliography

The 4th floor display of images from literature about French new wave cinema will be coming down shortly. The following selective bibliography lists preliminary sources for those who wish to study the history of French New Wave in more depth.


792.501 C119 v.1, 2, 3 - Cahiers du Cinema, edited by Jim Hiller (Harvard University Press, 1985), 3 vols.

791.43 G54c - Cinema: The Archeology of Film and the Memory of a Century by Jean-Luc Godard & Youssef Ishaghpour (Berg, 2005).

791.4309 C491 - Cinema, Year by Year, 1894-2004, editor in chief, Robyn Karney (Dorling Kindersley, 2004).

792.59 C343w - Claude Chabrol by Robin Wood & Michael Walker (Praeger, 1970).

792.502 R636c - Eric Rohmer, Realist and Moralist by C.G. Crisp (Indiana University Press, 1988).

791.4309 Eu7437 - European Cinema, edited by Elizabeth Ezra (Oxford University Press, 2004).

791.4302 G54br - Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2008).

791.4302 T768s - François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation by Robert Stam (Rutgers University Press, 2006).

791.4309 D799f 2011 - French Cinema by Charles Drazin (Faber and Faber, 2011).

791.4309 W692f - French Cinema Since 1950: Personal Histories by Emma Wilson (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).

791.4309 D744f - French New Wave by Jean Douchet (D.A.P., 1999, 1998).

791.4309 G834f - The French New Wave: A New Look by Naomi Greene (Wallflower, 2007).

791.4309 M3379f - The French New Wave: An Artistic School by Michel Marie (Blackwell Pub., 2003).

791.4361 N3978h - A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).

791.4309 Se4894m - Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Geneviève Sellier (Duke University Press, 2008)

791.4309 Sk41f 2002 - A World History of Film by Robert Sklar (Harry N. Abrams, 2002).

Das Chorwerk - a series of Renaissance and Baroque choral music

SCORE 783.08 C456 Das Chorwerk (Moseler, 1929-)

Das Chorwerk is a series of scores of European choral music composed between the 15th century and the 18th century. It includes works both secular and sacred works by renowned composers of Flemish, French, German, Dutch, English, Italian and Czech origin. These works have been selected and edited by noted music scholars.

According to Frederick Gable (in A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music) "Das Chorwerk is an authoritative large series devoted to a wide range of choral music." The series include some of the most noteworthy works of early polyphony by composers like Ockeghem, Josquin, Isaac, Gabrieli, Schein and Lasso.

Although new volumes of Das Chorwerk continue to be issued, the Library's holdings cease in the mid-1970s with volume 125. The IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) has a listing of all the volumes that includes scans of volumes 1 through 90.

An Index to Das Chorwerk: volumes 1-110 provides detailed information about the contents of the series. It indexes the contents by composer and title, details the voices employed and also supplies the musical type of each work. Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to their Contents also details the composers and works in this series.

The Library's collection of Das Chorwerk is lacking a few volumes and is not indexed in our online catalog. This blog entry includes an index of our holdings.


Bibliography:

Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to their Contents, compiled by Anna Harriet Heyer (American Library Association, 1980).

An Index to Das Chorwerk: volumes 1-110, compiled by Michael Ochs (Music Library Association, 1970).

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music (2nd edition), edited by Jeffery Kite-Powell (Indiana University Press, c2007).


2 Jacobus Vaet - Sechs Motetten (1929)
4 Johannes Ockeghem - Missa "Mi-mi" (1929)
5 Adrian Willaert, Philipp Verdelot, Jacob Arcadelt, Cyprian De Rose - Italienische Madrigale (1930)
6 Thomas Stoltzer - Psalm 37 (1930)
7 Heinrich Isaac - Missa carminum (1930)
8 Adrian Willaert - Volkstümliche Lieder (1930)
9 Heinrich Finck - Acht Hymnen (1930)
10 Giovanni Gabrieli - Drei Motetten (1931)
11 Pierre de La Rue - Requiem and eine Motet (1931)
12 Johann Hermann Schein - Sechs deutsche Motetten 1931)
13 Orlando de Lasso - Madrigali und Chansons (1931)
14 Lasso, Hieron, Praetorius, Sweelinck, Hassler, Schein - Sieben Chromatische Motetten des Barock (1931)
15 Johannes Lupi - Zehn weltliche Lieder (1931)
16 Johann Theile, Christoph Bernhard - Zwei Kurzmessen (1932)
17 Henry Purcell - Fünf Geistliche Chöre (1932)
20 Josquin Desprès - Missa da pacem (1932)
21 Heinrich Finck - Messa in summis (1932)
22 Gilles Binchois - Sechzehn weltliche Lieder (1933)
23 Josquin Desprès - Evangelien-Motetten (1933)
24 Melchior Franck – Fünf Hohelied-Motetten (1933)
25 Antonio Caldara – Ein Madrigal und achtzehn Kanons (1933)
26 Thomas Selle – Passion nach dem Evangelisten Johannes (1933)
27 Christoph Demantius – Passion nach dem Evangelisten Johannes, Weissagung des Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi (1934)
28 Gallus Dressler - Fünh Motetten (1934)
29 Fünfzehn deutsche Lieder aus Peter Schöffers Liederbuch (1934)
30 Desprès, La Maistre, Hollander, Utendal, de Vento, Regnart - Acht Lied- und Choralmotetten (1934)
31 Johannes Aulen - Missa (1934)
32 Von Fulda, Finck, Florigal, Hartzer, Kungsperger - Deutsche Meister des 15. Jahrhunderts, Zwolf Hymnen (1934)
33 Josquin Desprès – Drei Psalmen (1935)
34 Orlande de Lasso – Busstränen des Heiligen Petrus, Nr. 1 - 7 (1935)
35 Grabbe, Pederson, Nielsen - Neun Madrigale (1935)
37 Orlande de Lasso - Busstränen des Heiligen Petrus, Nr. 8 - 14 (1930
38 Melchior Franck - Musikalische Bergreihen (1936)
39 Christoph Demantius – Vier deutsche Motetten (1936)
40 Alessandro Grandi – Drei Konzertierende Motetten (1936)
41 Orlande de Lasso - Busstränen des Heiligen Petrus, Nr. 15 - 21 (1936)
42 Josquin Desprès - Missa de beata virgine (1936)
43 Isaac, Pesenti, Compère, Zesso, Scotus, Fo, Da Nola - Karnevalslieder der Renaissance (1936)
44 Johannes Hähnel - Ostermesse über das Lied "Christ ist erstanden" (1936)
45 Deutsche Lieder des 15. Jahrhunderts aus fremden Quellen (1937)
46 Johannes Martini – Drei geistliche Gesänge (1937)
47 Balthasar Harzer - Summa Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem (1937)
48 Orlande de Lasso - Prophetiae Sibyllarum (1937)
50 Johann Georg Kühnhausen - Passion nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus (1937)
52 Augustin Pfleger - Passionsmusik über die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (1938)
53 Melchior Franck – Drei Quodlibets (1956)
54 Desprès, Willaert, Arcadelt, de Rore - 5 Vergil-Motetten (1956)
55 Loyset Compère - Missa “Alles regrets” (1956)
56 Missa Anonyma II aus dem Codex Breslau Ms 2016 (1956)
58 Jacques Arcadelt – Sech Italienische Madrigale (1956)
59 Adrian Willaert – Drei Motetten (1957)
60 Escobar, Dalua, Sanabria, de Peñalosa, Vrede - Spanisches Hymnar um 1500 (1957)
61 De Beaulieu, Sandrin, Mornable, Layolle, Cadéac, de Sermisy, Arcadelt, de Manchicourt, Mouton, Coste, Buss, Fresneau – Zwölf Französische Lider, aus Jacques Moderne: Parangon des chansons (1957)
62 Ludwig Senfl – Zwei Marien-Motetten (1957)
63 Georg Forster – Zehn weltliche Lieder (1957)
65 Antonio Scandello - Missa super "Epitaphium Mauritii" (1958)
66 Ambrosius Beber – Markus-Passion (1958)
67 Giovanni Gabrieli – Drei Motetten (1958)
68 Antoine Brumel - Missa Pro defunctis (1959)
69 Georg Hemmerley - Drei Motetten (1958)
70 Jean Mouton - Missa “Alleluya” (1958)
71 David Köler – Drei deutsche Psalmen (1960)
72 Jacobus Clemens non Papa – Drei Motetten (1959)
73 Clément Janequin - Zehn Chansons (1959)
74 Thomas Stoltzer - Ostermesse (1958)
75 Anton Gosswin - Neue teutsche Lieder (1960)
76 Jean Mouton - Fünf Motetten (1959)
77 Gioseffo Zarlino – Drei Motetten und ein geistliches Madrigal (1959)
78/79 Friedrich Funcke - Matthäuspassion (1961)
80 de Wert, Pallavicino, Striggio - Vier Madrigale von Mantuaner Komponisten (1961)
81 Heinrich Isaac - Introiten I (1960)
82 Pierre Certon - Zehn Chansons (1962)
83 Antonius Divitis – Missa “Quem dicunt homines” (1961)
84 John Sheppard – Sechs Responsorien (1960)
85 Johannes Hähnel – Drei Weihnachtsmagnificat (1961)
86 Lambert de Sayve – Vier Motetten (1962)
87 Matthias Greitter – Sämtliche weltliche Lieder (1962)
88 Giovanni Nasco - Fünf Madrigale auf Texte von Francesco Petrarca (1962)
89 Krebs, Kirnberger, Homilius - Vier Motetten der Bachschule (1963)
90 Thomas Selle - Zwei Kurzmessen (1963)
91 Pierre de La Rue - Vier Motetten (1964)
92 Benedictus, Faignienet, Verdonck, Baston, Souliaert, Belle, Clemens non Papa, de Latre - Fünfzehn Flämische Lieder der Renaissance (1964)
93 Costanzo Porta - Missa "La sol fa re mi" (1965)
94 Jean Richafort - Drei Motetten über den Text "Quem dicunt homines" (1964)
95 Domenico Mazzocchi - Sechs Madrigale (1965)
96 Andrea Gabrieli - Drei Motetten (1965)
97 Robert Fayrfax - Missa "Tecum principium" (1965)
98 Heinrich Hartmann - Vier deutsche Motetten (1965)
99 Johann Ludwig Bach - Zwei Motetten (1964)
100 Heinrich Isaac - Vier "Marienmotetten" (1965)
101 Adam Rener - Missa "Carminum" (1966)
102 Thomas Crecquillon - Drei Te Deum (1967)
103 Claude Goudimel - Vier Festmotetten (1966)
104 Georg Philipp Telemann - Vier Motetten (1967)
105 Benvenuto, Cambio, Parabosco, Donato - Fünf Madrigale venezianischer Komponisten um Adrian Willaert (1969)
106 Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia - Drei Magnificat (1969)
107 Christoph Bernhard - Eine Kurzmesse und eine Motette (1969)
108 Orazio Vecchi - Missa In Resurrectione Domini (1967)
109 Giaches de Wert - Vier Madrigale und drei Konzonetten (1970)
110 Johannes Nucius - Vier Motetten (1969)
111 Heugel, Fritz, Alderinus, Sporer, Dietrich, Brätel, et al - Achtzehn weltliche Lieder aus den Drucken Christian Egenolffs (1970)
112 Antonio Vivaldi - Zwei Psalmen (1972)
113 Mario Savioni - Fünf Madrigale (1972)
114 Pierre de La Rue - Missa "L'homme armé" (1972)
115 Antonio Ingegneri - Sieben Madrigale (1974)
116 Teodoro Casati - Messa Concertata (1972)
117 Christian Erbach - Acht Motetten (1974)
118 Jiří Rychnovský - Missa super "Et valde mane" (1973)
119 Heinrich Isaac - Introiten II (1973)
120 Isaac, Bruhier, Jachet di Mantua, de Cleve - Vier Sattsmotetten des 16. Jahrhunderts (1977)
121 Crecquillon, Cambio, Zarlino, Ferrabosco - Vier Motetten (1976)
122 Ludovicus Episcopus - Fünf weltliche flämische Lieder (1977)
124 Jean Richafort - Requiem (1976)
125 Marenzio, Vecchi, Eccard, Varotto - Madrigali a diversi linguaggi (1975)

Silkscreening and Collage with Penelope Houston

Learn about collaging and silk-screening from local artist, musician and library technician, Penelope Houston.

In conjunction with the exhibit “Put a Librarian On It”, displayed on the lower level of the Main, we are pleased to present this exciting program on Thursday, April 5th from 6-7:30. Penelope will be available for a question and answer session after the demonstration and participants will take home their own unique postcard.

Penelope Houston is well known as the lead singer of the Avengers, a solo musician and is also a visual artist.


Check out these books if you want to learn more about collage and the screen printing process…

Collage, Assemblage, and Altered Art: Creating Unique Images and Objects by Diane Maurer-Mathison (Watson-Guptill Publications, c2007).

Collage Fusion: Vibrant Wood and Fabric Art Using Telamadera Techniques by Alma de la Melena Cox (North Light Books, 2009).

Collage Playground: A Fresh Approach to Creating Mixed-Media Art by Kimberly Santiago (North Light Books, 2010).

Collage Sourcebook: Exploring the Art and Techniques of Collage by Jennifer Atkinson, Holly Harrison, Paula Grasdal (Quarry Books, 2005).

Water-Based Screenprinting Today: From Hands-On Techniques to Digital Technology by Roni Henning (Watson-Guptill Publications, 2006).

Little Book of Screen Printing by Caspar Williamson (Chronicle, 2011).

Printing By Hand: A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils, and Silk Screens by Lena Corwin (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008).

Simple Screenprinting: Basic Techniques & Creative Projects by Annie Stromquist (Lark Books, 2004).

Fly Girls and Gorillas in the Mist - 2 more videos for Women's History Month

The theme of Women's History continues for two more weeks at the Library's Thursday Noon large-screen video series in the Koret Auditorium.

image source: American Experience

Thursday, March 22, 2012, at noon

Fly Girls (1999, 56 minutes)

During World War II more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women would again break the sex barrier in the skies.

Fly Girls is a documentary produced by PBS for their American Experience Series.

source: Wikimedia Commons

Thursday, March 29, 2012, at noon

Gorillas in the Mist (1988, 129 minutes)

Dian Fossey convinced Louis Leakey, the guru of African anthropologists, to allow her to set up a jungle camp in Rwanda and conduct a census of the gorillas. Over the years she grew into one of the great experts on these animals, learning to imitate their behavior so well that they accepted her in their midst. What comes through in this treatment is her fierce protectiveness of these animals – a woman who spoke her mind, for those that couldn’t. Though ultimately this strong stance cost her life, this film celebrates the bond that she shared with the gorillas.

Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey.

This series receives support from the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. All library programs are free and open to the public.

Frida - Thursday noon video for Women's History Month

This weeks Thursday noon video will be Frida (2002), directed by Julie Traynor.

This biographic picture, based on Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera, chronicles the life of Frida Kahlo and unflinchingly shows her marriage to Diego Rivera. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Frida stars Salma Hayak as Frida Kahlo, Alfred Molina as her husband Diego Rivera, and Geoffrey Rush as Leon Trotsky.

This 123 minute video will be screened at 12 noon on Thursday, March 15, 2012 in the Koret Auditorium. This series receives support from the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. All Library programs are free and open to the public.

Related reading:

Frida, A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (Perennial, 1983).

Frida: Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film, foreword by Hayden Herrera; introductions by Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek; based on the book by Hayden Herrera (Newmarket Press, 2002).

Atomic Mom - Thursday noon video program for Women's History Month

The second Thursday noon large screen video program for Women's History Month will be the documentary film Atomic Mom, directed by M.T. Silvia.

Atomic Mom weaves an intimate portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship within an obscure – but important – moment in American history. As the only female scientist present during atomic detonations in the Nevada desert, Pauline Silvia, the filmmaker’s mother, undergoes a crisis of conscience. After a long silence and prompted by her daughter, she finally reveals grim secrets of working in the U.S. atomic testing program.

In our present moment of Wikileaks, Pauline is a similar whistle-blower having been cowed by the silencing machine of the US military for decades. In an attempt to reconcile with her own mother’s past, her daughter, filmmaker M.T. Silvia, meets Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor trying to resolve her own history in Japan. The film follows these survivors, each on a different end of atomic warfare, as they “meet” through the filmmaking process, and as they, with startling honestly, attempt to understand the other.

Atomic Mom will be shown at 12:00 on March 8, 2012 in the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library. This 80 minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

This program is supported by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. All programs at the San Francisco Public Library are free and open to the public.

The French New Wave Cinema

There is currently a display in the Art, Music and Recreation featuring images and writings about French New Wave Cinema.

French New Wave is considered by serious film devotees to be one of the most exciting and influential of film movements. Its origin can be traced back to an important essay penned by Andre Bazin in 1945: “The Ontology of the Photographic Image.” His belief that films should present a director's personal vision has greatly influenced the auteur theory according to which the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture. It holds that the director, who oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture, is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay. In other words, such fundamental visual elements as camera placement, blocking, lighting, and scene length, rather than plot line, convey the message of the film. Soon after Alexandre Astruc would develop the idea of camera-stylo which suggests that camera is like a pen in the hands of the director.

1951 Bazin founded Cahiers du Cinema, an influential film magazine, where these ideas were further developed. The magazine would provide an intellectual platform to young cinephiles who would critique the stagnant state of French cinema by referring it to as Le cinema du papa. By consensus the creative highpoint of this movement falls between 1958 - 1962. François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, all critics at the Cahiers, have been acknowledged as the heart of the movement, and are known as the Young Turks of the New Wave. Loosely speaking, they advocated objective continuity and mise en scène over experiments in editing and visual effects. In general, they also showed preference for Italian neo-realism over Hollywood's artificial reality, its studio system and big budgets. Though Chabrol was the first one to make a professional breakthrough with Le Beau Serg in 1958 and Les Cousins in 1959, it was Truffaut's 400 Blows that announced the arrival of the wave along with Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, both stealing awards at Cannes. This event was followed by another major event in the history of the wave: the arrival of Godard's Breathless in 1960 that enchanted the movie lovers everywhere.

Another group of directors from across the Seine were more ambiguously connected to the Wave. Known as the Left Bank Group, its most important directors included Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, and Alain Resnais. Yet there are those who claim that it was Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman and the way Bridget Bardot's sexuality exploded on the cinema screen that made the wave possible. Bardot made the wave happen. Nevertheless it is Jeanne Moreau's cinematic persona that has become synonymous with the French New Wave. And this wouldn’t have been possible without Louis Malle’s iconic Les Amants in 1959.


Related reading

Cahiers du cinéma, edited by Jim Hillier (Harvard University Press, 1985-)

Cahiers du cinéma. Table of contents (AMS Press, 1971).

French New Wave by Jean Douchet; in collaboration with Caedric Anger; translated by Robert Bonnon (D.A.P. in association with Editions Hazan / Cinematheque Française, 1998).

What is Cinema? Essays, selected and translated by Hugh Gray (University of California Press, 1971) [vol. 2]