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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Part I: Contexts
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Setting Out the Terrain: Genre and History
Chapter 3: Setting Out the Terrain: Technologies, Technicians and Stars
Part II: Fairytales, Foxy Women and Swashbuckling Heroes
Chapter 4: Costume Drama from Late-Medieval to the Eighteenth Century: An Overview
Chapter 5: Mysterious Microcosms: Three ‘Fairytales’
Chapter 6: Foxy Women: Queens, Mistresses and Minxes
Chapter 7: Swashbuckling Heroes
Part III: Representing History: Epics, Courtesans and Master Narratives 1796–1888
Chapter 8: Setting the Terrain: France 1796–1888
Chapter 9: Representing History: 1796–1814 Napoleon Bonaparte/Napoleon I
Chapter 10: Representing the Social: Restoration–July Monarchy (1814–1848)
Chapter 11: Epic Grandeur: Part One, Philanthropists
Chapter 12: Epic Grandeur: Part Two, Avengers
Chapter 13: From the Second to the Third Republic: Innovation, Corruption and New Identities
Chapter 14: The Second Empire in the Pink: Violets, Waltzes, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Chapter 15: The Second Empire in the Raw: Martine Carol’s Celebrity Courtesans
Chapter 16: From Empire to Republic: A Modernized France Emerging
Chapter 17: Censoring the Classics: Bel-Ami, Louis Daquin (1954; released in France 1957)
Part IV: Belle Epoque Mania: Paris, the Provinces and Biopics
Chapter 18: Belle Epoque Films: An Overview
Chapter 19: Parisian Society of the Belle Epoque through Film
Chapter 20: Truth and Lies and the Pursuit of Marriage: Love Intrigues outside Paris
Chapter 21: Making Li(v)es: Belle Epoque Biopics
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix: French Costume Drama of the 1950s
Index
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