Unraveling French cinema : from L'Atalante to Caché

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Unraveling French cinema : from L'Atalante to Caché

T. Jefferson Kline

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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  • : hbk

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Unraveling French cinema

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-218) and index

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Volume

: 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
Volume

: 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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  • NCID
    BB01192699
  • ISBN
    • 9781405184519
    • 9781405184526
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chichester
  • Pages/Volumes
    226 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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