A Companion to Jean Renoir (eBook)

Alastair Phillips, Ginette Vincendeau (Herausgeber)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-32534-6 (ISBN)

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François Truffaut called him, simply, 'the best'. Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world cinema and fully justifies this monumental survey that includes contributions from leading international film scholars and comprehensively analyzes Renoir's life and career from numerous critical perspectives.

• New and original research by the world's leading English and French language Renoir scholars explores stylistic, cultural and ideological aspects of Renoir's films as well as key biographical periods
• Thematic structure admits a range of critical methodologies, from textual analysis to archival research, cultural studies, gender-based and philosophical approaches
• Features detailed analysis of Renoir's essential works
• Provides an international perspective on this key auteur's enduring significance in world film history

Alastair Phillips is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Rififi (2009), and City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 (2004). He is co-author of 100 Film Noirs (2009) and co-editor, with Ginette Vincendeau, of Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) as well as, with Julian Stringer, of Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2007).

Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK. Among her books are Jean Gabin, Anatomie d'un mythe, with Claude Gauteur (1993, 2006), Pépé le Moko (1998), Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (2003), and La Haine (2005). She co-edited Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) and The New Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009).

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A Companion to Jean Renoir An extraordinary collection of essays that more than fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau. The essays offer exciting, original work from younger scholars as well as long-established authorities, all of which offer invaluable insights into the films, writings, and life of Jean Renoir. Receiving particular attention are questions about the singularity or multiplicity of what the editors call the many Renoirs (French, American, Indian; even transnational), especially from the early 1930s through the early 1960s. Whether mining relatively unexplored archive materials, deploying newly current methodological approaches, interrogating one of a wide range of topics and issues, or engaging in close textual analysis, the contributors construct a tantalizing series of innovative road maps for future researchers to pursue. Richard Abel, University of Michigan Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau have brought together essays that bring new perspectives to both the best-known and the lesser-known of Renoir s films. Both French cinema specialists and viewers new to Renoir s work will find much of interest in this outstanding collection. Judith Mayne, Ohio State University Dubbed simply the best director by Fran ois Truffaut, Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world film history. This exhaustive survey of his work and life features a comprehensive analysis of his films from the multiple critical perspectives of the world s leading Renoir scholars. Renoir s career spanned four decades and four countries and included an extraordinary body of films, some of which La Grande illusion (1937) and La R gle du jeu (1939) are universally recognized masterpieces. Fathered by the celebrated painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the filmmaker lived through much of the twentieth century, beginning his career in the silent era and ending it in full Technicolor. His films are notable for their paradoxical combination of strong internal coherence and thematic breadth and diversity, and they provide a rich source for today s scholars of film history and French culture. This handbook, the largest volume on Renoir ever produced in the English language, ranges in scope from extreme close-up analysis of individual films to long-shot explorations of his aesthetics and the social and cultural contexts in which he worked. The most ambitious critical study of Renoir to date, this book will appeal to film enthusiasts as much as scholars and specialists.

Autor

Alastair Phillips is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Rififi (2009), and City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 (2004). He is co-author of 100 Film Noirs (2009) and co-editor, with Ginette Vincendeau, of Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) as well as, with Julian Stringer, of Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2007). Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK. Among her books are Jean Gabin: anatomie d'un mythe, with Claude Gauteur (1993, 2006), Pépé le Moko (1998), Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (2003), and La Haine (2005). She co-edited Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) and The New French Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009).

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"Phillips and Vincendeau's volume is intelligently
organized, extremely comprehensive, and generously illustrated with
images from many of the films. Summing Up: Highly
recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty
and professionanls." (Choice, 1 January
2014)

"Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau have brought
together essays that bring new perspectives to both the best-known
and the lesser-known of Renoir's films. Both French
cinema specialists and viewers new to Renoir's work will find
much of interest in this outstanding collection."

Judith Mayne, Ohio State University

"An extraordinary collection of essays that more than
fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette
Vincendeau. The essays offer exciting, original work from younger
scholars as well as long-established authorities, all of which
offer invaluable insights into the films, writings, and life of
Jean Renoir. Receiving particular attention are questions about the
singularity or multiplicity of what the editors call the many
'Renoirs' (French, American, Indian; even
transnational), especially from the early 1930s through the early
1960s. Whether mining relatively unexplored archive materials,
deploying newly current methodological approaches, interrogating
one of a wide range of topics and issues, or engaging in close
textual analysis, the contributors construct a tantalizing series
of innovative 'road maps' for future researchers to
pursue."

Richard Abel, University of Michigan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2013
• Reihe/Serie: WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Filmforschung • Film Studies • French film, French studies, reference, scholarship, French cinema, Francois Truffaut, La Grande Illusion, La Règle du Jeu, auteurship, film director, silent era, technicolor, French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game, Popular Front, The Human Beast, La Bête Humaine, The Southerner • Kulturwissenschaften • Renoir, Jean
• ISBN-10: 1-118-32534-6 / 1118325346
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-32534-6 / 9781118325346