Cracking Gilles Deleuze’s Crystal

Narrative Space-time in the Films of Jean Renoir

Barry Nevin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2632-9 (ISBN)

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Jean Renoir is widely considered as one of the most important technical innovators and politically engaged filmmakers in cinema history. Reassessing the unique qualities of Renoir’s influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze’s film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir’s oeuvre. Exploring canonised landmarks in Renoir’s career, including La Grande Illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939), the book also considers neglected films such as Le Bled (1929) and Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) to present a rounded analysis of this quintessential French auteur’s oeuvre.

Barry Nevin is Assistant Lecturer in French at the Dublin Institute of Technology and Teaching Visitor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on French cinema of the 1930s, particularly the films of Jean Renoir, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Carné. His work has been published in a wide range of academic journals including Studies in French Cinema, French Cultural Studies and the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies.

AcknowledgementsPreface

IntroductionTheorising Renoir’s narrative style: Bazin, Faulkner, and Braudy. The future beyond the point de fuite: opening the image-temps to spaceOpen spaces / open futures: filming spatial politics Reading Deleuze on Renoir: critical opinionsDiscursive positioning: Renoir auteur

Chapter 1 – Teatro Mundi: Framing Urban Dynamics in Renoir’s ParisIntroduction: Renoir, cinema and the cityLa Chienne (1931)Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)La Règle du jeu (1939)Conclusion: Renoir’s Ville-concept

Chapter 2 – From Desert to Dreamscape: Viewing Renoir’s Rural Landscapes as Spatial ArenasIntroduction: opening the natural landscape to space-time Le Bled (1929)The Southerner (1945)The River (1951)Conclusion: dynamising the natural landscape

Chapter 3 – Portraying the Future(s) of the Front PopulaireIntroduction: theory and texts in contextLe Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)Les Bas-fonds (1936)La Grande Illusion (1937)Conclusion: ‘We are dancing on a volcano’.

Chapter 4 – Renoir’s Crises Anti-réalistes: Framing le Temps GeléIntroduction: seeing time in the image planeDiary of a Chambermaid (1946)The Golden Coach (1952)Eléna et les hommes (1956)Conclusion: society and spectacle

ConclusionBibliography Appendix: Corpus Breakdown

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	398 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-2632-8 / 1474426328
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2632-9 / 9781474426329
Zustand	Neuware