Unraveling French Cinema

From L'Atalante to Cach

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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 cinemaExplores 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-01-12
Mått154 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405184519

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Acknowledgments viIntroduction 11 Cinema and/as Poetry: L’Atalante’s Apples as Poems 132 Cinema and the Real: Renoir’s Rules 353 Cinema and/as Crime: Breaking the Law in The Children of Paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless 544 Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film 835 Cinema and/as Dream: Truffaut’s “Royal Road” to Adele H. 1096 Cinema and/as Hypnosis: Jacquot’s Seventh Heaven 1327 Cinema and/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine’s How I Killed My Father 1488 Cinema and/as Terror: Michael Haneke’s Caché 1659 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema 179Notes 193References 212Index 219

"T. Jefferson Kline's recent book is an interesting, instructive, and at times intriguing Read. . . Jean Vigo's L'Atalante is presented as an excellent example of how poetry can be achieved through cinematography." (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1 September 2011) "Cinema historians or those specialists in film studies interested in the links between film and history may find something still to be desired from these combinations, even if the analysis offered does shed quite a different light on some of the most famous films of French cinema." (FH, 2 June 2011)"In Unraveling French Cinema by T. Jefferson Kline, the focus (and astoundingly detailed focus it is too) is on the complexities of this strain of cinema divided appropriately into eight sections accompanied by in-depth examinations of ten films." (M/C Reviews, August 20, 2010)"I enjoyed this book very much and found it to be challenging, rewarding and worthwhile. Kline has an engaging prose style and clearly knows his stuff. Envy his students." (Jildy Sauce, April 2010)