Unraveling French Cinema

From L'Atalante to Cach

T. Jefferson Kline (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2010
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-8451-9 (ISBN)

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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. Kline analyzes seven cinematic arenas, each chosen to present the reader with an experience of reading a film for plot and a particular definition of what it means to make a film.

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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.1.2010
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 230 mm
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
ISBN-10	1-4051-8451-5 / 1405184515
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-8451-9 / 9781405184519
Zustand	Neuware