Kline Unraveling French Cinema

From L'Atalante to Caché
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1554-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Unraveling French Cinema provides a much needed introductionto the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and themovie-loving public.
* Looks at the differences between French and American nationalcinema
* Explores how French directors shape their films around twopotentially divergent goals: the narration of a story and anelaboration of some theory about film itself.
* Demystifies the "difficulty" of French cinema, allowing theAmerican movie-goer to enjoy films that are too often perplexing ata first viewing.
* Offers extended analyses of classic, New Wave, and contemporaryFrench films--including L'Atalante, Adele H.,The Rules of the Game, and Cache.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kline, T. Jefferson

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Caché 165
9 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema 179
Notes 193
References 212
Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

T. Jefferson Kline is a Professor of French at Boston University where he served as Chair of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (1979-88) and more recently received a Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching. His publications include Bertolucci's Dream Loom, I film di Bertolucci, Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema and various edited works and essays on literature.