Unraveling French cinema : from L'Atalante to Caché
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Unraveling French cinema : from L'Atalante to Caché
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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Unraveling French cinema
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-218) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9781405184519
Description
Unraveling French Cinema provides a much needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public.
Looks at the differences between French and American national cinema
Explores how French directors shape their films around two potentially divergent goals: the narration of a story and an elaboration of some theory about film itself.
Demystifies the "difficulty" of French cinema, allowing the American movie-goer to enjoy films that are too often perplexing at a first viewing.
Offers extended analyses of classic, New Wave, and contemporary French films-including L'Atalante, Adele H., The Rules of the Game, and Cache.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction 1
1 Cinema and/as Poetry: L'Atalante's Apples as Poems 13
2 Cinema and the Real: Renoir's Rules 35
3 Cinema and/as Crime: Breaking the Law in The Children of Paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless 54
4 Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film 83
5 Cinema and/as Dream: Truffaut's "Royal Road" to Adele H. 109
6 Cinema and/as Hypnosis: Jacquot's Seventh Heaven 132
7 Cinema and/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine's How I Killed My Father 148
8 Cinema and/as Terror: Michael Haneke's Cache 165
9 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema 179
Notes 193
References 212
Index 219
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: hbk ISBN 9781405184526
Description
Unraveling French Cinema provides a much needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public. Looks at the differences between French and American national cinema Explores how French directors shape their films around two potentially divergent goals: the narration of a story and an elaboration of some theory about film itself. Demystifies the "difficulty" of French cinema, allowing the American movie-goer to enjoy films that are too often perplexing at a first viewing. Offers extended analyses of classic, New Wave, and contemporary French films-including L'Atalante , Adele H ., The Rules of the Game , and Cache .
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Cinema and/as Poetry: L'Atalante 's Apples as Poems. 2 Cinema and the Real: Renoir's Rules . 3 Cinema and/as Crime: Breaking the Law in The Children of Paradise , Pickpocket, and Breathless . 4 Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film. 5 Cinema and/as Dream: Truffaut's "Royal Road" to Adele H. 6 Cinema and/as Hypnosis: Jacquot's Seventh Heaven . 7 Cinema and/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine's How I Killed My Father . 8 Cinema and/as Terror: Michael Haneke's Cache . 9 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema. Notes. References. Index.
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