film à episodes (English spelling) filmaepisodes

Japanese: film à épisodes(英語表記)filmaepisodes
film à episodes (English spelling) filmaepisodes

...With the help of Louis Feuillade, who succeeded Alice Guy, the world's first female director, as head producer and director, Gaumont completely overtook Pathé and became the king of French film by the mid-1910s. The pinnacle of this was Feuillade's action series, which ranged from Fantomas (1913-14) to De La Roux (1915-16) and Judex (1917), and were not only a box-office success but also enthusiastic artists (especially the surrealists, including Breton and Aragon). Aragon's first novel, Anice or Panorama (1920), has a chapter entitled Action, in which he pays homage to action series, calling them "spectacles that are truly appropriate for our times."

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Japanese:

…世界最初の女流監督として知られるアリス・ギーAlice Guyの後を継いで製作責任者兼監督となったルイ・フイヤードの力で,ゴーモン社は1910年代半ばには完全にパテー映画社を追い越してフランス映画界の覇者となった。その頂点が《ファントマ》(1913‐14)から《ドラルー》(1915‐16),《ジュデックス》(1917)に至るフイヤード監督の連続活劇film à épisodes(〈シネ・ロマン〉とも呼ばれた)で,興行的大成功のみならず,芸術家(なかでもブルトン,アラゴンをはじめとするシュルレアリストたち)を熱狂させたのであった。アラゴンの処女小説《アニセまたはパノラマ》(1920)には〈活劇〉と題する章があり,〈まさに現代にふさわしい見世物〉として連続活劇へのオマージュがつづられている。…

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