| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-336) and index |
| Contents |
In the name of the father : Marcel Pagnol's "trilogy": Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) / Ginette Vincendeau -- Paris, Arizona; or the redemption of difference : Jean Renoir's Le crime de Monsieur Lange (1935) / Christopher Faulkner -- Fleeing gaze : Jean Renoir's La bet̂e humaine (1938) / Michele Lagny -- Poetic realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation : Marcel Carné's Le jour se lève (1939) / Maureen Turim -- Beneath the despair, the show goes on : Marcel Carné's Les enfants du paradis (1943-45) / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas -- Sacrament of writing : Robert Bresson's Le journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / Keith A. Reader -- Breath of sea air : Jacques Tati's Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1952) / Pierre Sorlin -- Casque d'or, casquettes, a cask of ageing wine : Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1952) / Dudley Andrew -- No place for homosexuality : Marcel Carné's L'Air de Paris (1954) / Richard Dyer -- Script of delinquency : François Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959) / Anne Gillain -- It really makes you sick! : Jean Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1959) / Michel Marie -- Fall of the gods : Jean Luc Godard's Le mépris (1963) / Jacques Aumont -- Mise-en-scène degree zero : Jean Pierre Melville's Le samouraï (1967) / Colin McArthur -- Eye for irony : Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) / Norman King -- Sex, politics and popular culture : Bertrand Blier's Les valseuses (1973) / Jill Forbes -- Anti-carnival of collaboration : Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien (1974) / H.R. Kedward -- Maternal legacies : Diane Kury's Coup de foudre (1983) / Carrie Tarr -- Representing the sexual impasse : Eric Rohmer's Les nuits de la pleine lune (1984) / Berenice Reynaud -- Beyond the gaze and into femme-filmécriture : Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985) / Susan Hayward -- Versions, verse and verve : Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) / Julianne Pidduck -- Recycled woman and the postmodern aesthetic : Luc Besson's Nikita (1990) / Susan Hayward -- Designs on the banlieue : Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (1995) / Ginette Vincendeau |
| Summary |
"For enthusiasts and scholars of French film, this volume provides detailed analyses of twenty-two classics of French cinema, from the 1920s to the 1990s. Putting the films in the context of issues like the history of French cinema, gender politics, and the influence of Hollywood, French Film: Texts and Contexts discusses such masterpieces as Renoir's La Bete Humaine and Carne's Les Enfants du paradis; popular classics such as Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and Ma nuit chez Maud; landmarks of the New Wave such as Les 400 coups and A bout de souffle; and important contemporary films such as Nikita and La Haine. This revised and updated edition includes new articles on controversial classics and key films of the 1990s, a filmography of each director discussed, a new introduction and bibliography, and a guide to further reading."--Jacket |
| OCLC # |
42912224 |
| Phys. Description |
xvii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Other author |
Hayward, Susan, 1945-
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Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0415161177 |
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9780415161176 |
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0415161185 (pbk.) |
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9780415161183 (pbk.) |
| Subjects |
Motion pictures -- France -- History
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France. |
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Frankreich. |
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Frankreich. |
| Genre |
History.
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