CiNii Books - A companion to François Truffaut

A Companion to Francois Truffaut "An unprecedented critical tribute to the director who, in France, wound up becoming the most controversial figure of the New Wave he helped found." Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique "This exciting collection breaks through the widely held critical view that Truffaut abandoned the iconoclasm of his early work for an academicism he had consistently railed against in his own film criticism. Indeed, if 'fever' and 'fire' were Truffaut's most consistent motifs, the essays in this collection live up to his lifelong, burning passion for the cinema. Written by world-famous scholars, the essays exhaustively explore the themes and styles of the films, as well as Truffaut's relationships to Andre Bazin, Alfred Hitchcock, and the directors of the New Wave, his ground-breaking and controversial film criticism, and his position in the complex politics of French cultural life from the Popular Front to 1968 and after." Angelo Restivo, Georgia State University Although the New Wave, one of the most influential aesthetic revolutions in the history of cinema, might not have existed without him, Francois Truffaut has largely been ignored by film scholars since his death almost thirty years ago. As an innovative theoretician, an influential critic, and a celebrated filmmaker, Truffaut formulated, disseminated, and illustrated the ideals of the New Wave with exceptional energy and distinction. Yet no book in recent years has focused on Truffaut's value, and his overall contribution to cinema deserves to be redefined not only to reinstate him in his proper place but to let us rethink how cinema developed during his lifetime. In this new Companion, thirty-four original essays by leading film scholars offer new readings of individual films and original perspectives on the filmmaker's background, influences, and consequence. Hugely influential around the globe, Truffaut is assessed by international contributors who delve into the unique quality of his narratives and establish the depth of his distinctively styled work. An extended interview with French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin tracks Truffaut's controversial stature within French cinema and vividly identifies how he thinks and works as a director, adding an irreplaceable perspective to this essential volume.

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Acknowledgments viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xv Filmography xxiii Part I La Planete Truffaut 1 1. Interview with Arnaud Desplechin, Part I: Truffaut and His Position 3 Anne Gillain and Dudley Andrew 2. Truffaut and His "Doubles" 23 Martin Lefebvre 3. Aesthetic Affinities: Francois Truffaut, Patrick Modiano, Douglas Sirk 71 Anne Gillain 4. Interview with Arnaud Desplechin, Part II: Truffaut and His Methods 105 Anne Gillain and Dudley Andrew Part II Style and Sensibility 125 5. Flashes of Happiness 127 Alain Bergala 6. Truffaut and the Photographic: Cinema, Fetishism, Death 137 Junji Hori 7. The Impasse of Intimacy: Romance and Tragedy in Truffaut's Cinema 153 John Orr 8. A Fine Madness: Digressions on Pathologies in Truffaut's Films 173 Francis Vanoye 9. The Ecstatic Pan 184 Phil Powrie 10. The Untimely Moment and the Correct Distance 205 Adrian Martin Part III The Making of a Filmmaker 219 11. Every Teacher Needs a Truant: Bazin and L'Enfant sauvage 221 Dudley Andrew 12. Certain Tendencies of Truffaut's Film Criticism 242 Richard Neupert 13. Truffaut-Hitchcock 265 Jonathan Everett Haynes 14. The Paradox of "Familiarity": Truffaut, Heir of Renoir 283 Ludovic Cortade 15. Cain and Abel: Godard and Truffaut 300 Michel Marie 16. Friction, Failure, and Fire: Truffaut as Adaptive Auteur 317 Timothy Corrigan Part IV Truffaut and His Time 333 17. Growing Up with the French New Wave 335 James Tweedie 18. Bad Objects: Truffaut's Radicalism 356 Sam Di Iorio 19. Between Renoir and Hitchcock: The Paradox of Truffaut's Women 375 Ginette Vincendeau 20. Truffaut in the Mirror of Japan 388 Kan Nozaki Part V Films 401 21. Directing Children: The Double Meaning of Self-Consciousness 403 Angela Dalle Vacche 22. Jules et Jim ... et Walter Benjamin 420 Dudley Andrew 23. Digging Up the Past: Jules et Jim 434 Elizabeth Ezra 24. The Elevator and the Telephone: On Urgency in La Peau douce 448 Michel Chion 25. La Peau douce: A Psychogeography of Silky Cinephilia 454 Tom Conley 26. La Peau douce: Francois Truffaut's Passionate Object 469 Hilary Radner 27. An Unsettling Passage: From Les Deux Anglaises et le continent to La Chambre verte 489 Carlos Losilla 28. The Structural Role of Intervals in L'Argent de poche 507 Alain Bergala 29. To Die or to Love: Modern Don Juans in Truffaut and Oliveira 517 Luiza Jatoba 30. Film as Literature: or the Truffaldian Malaise (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes) 530 Lucia Nagib 31. The Elegist: Francois Truffaut inside La Chambre verte 546 Philip Watts 32. La Chambre verte and the Beating Heart of Truffaut's Oeuvre 561 Francoise Zamour 33. Le Dernier Metro: An Underground Golden Coach 571 Jean-Michel Frodon 34. Disillusionment and Magic in La Nuit americaine and Le Dernier Metro 584 Marc Vernet Index 594

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