Totally Truffaut

23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-753631-5
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and doomed relationship with Catherine Deneuve. The book focuses first on the process that embeds experience into fictions, and more specifically into visual forms and patterns. It also tries to define the mode of perception film language triggers in the spectator. When entering a movie theater, we expect perceptual pleasure. Truffaut's creative work is devoted to distilling this drug to audiences, an ambition central to the evolution of his style. These two issues are closely connected and Totally Truffaut follows, film after film, their crisscrossing paths. It also highlights the essential role several great actresses-Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Dorléac, Isabelle Adjani, Jacqueline Bisset, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the creation of the films.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillain, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Über Autor(innen)

After earning a PhD at Harvard, Anne Gillain taught courses on French cinema at Wellesley College. She met François Truffaut in 1979 while writing a memoir on his films and remained in touch with in until his death in 1984. This was the prelude to a series of books that have been translated in English by Alistair Fox: François Truffaut: The Lost Secret, Truffaut on Cinema. She also published A Companion to François Truffaut, a volume of articles edited in collaboration with Dudley Andrew.