The Films of Eric Rohmer [electronic resource] : French New Wave to Old Master /
Anderst, L.editor.
Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.
Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Eric Rohmer and Me; PART I: Rohmer: Critic and Philosopher; 2 Eric Rohmer and the Legacy of Cinematic Realism; 3 Practicing What He Preaches? Continuities and Discontinuities in Rohmer's Early Film Criticism and His Conte d'automne; 4 Ma Nuit chez Maud and the Moral Imagination: Rhymes,Symmetries, and Variations on an Ethical Theme; PART II: Narration, Frames, Genres; 5 The Fall into Words: From Contes des quatre saisons toL'Anglaise et le Duc; 6 Eric Rohmer's Magnetic Fluid
7 Imagination and Grace: Rohmer's Contes des quatre saisons8 Auteur Meets Genre: Rohmer and the Rom-Com; PART III: Politics, Gender, and Class; 9 Rohmer/Politics: From Royalism to Ecology; 10 On the Class Character of Desire: Romantic Heroics in the Contes moraux; 11 Rohmer's Realism: Women on the Border of What Is andWhat Might Be; PART IV: Architecture, Places, and Space; 12 The Changing Landscape and Rohmer's Temptation of Architecture; 13 Walking in the City: Paris in the Films of Eric Rohmer; 14 Rohmer's Poetics of Placelessness; PART V: Adapting History and Literature
15 Eric Rohmer, Historiographer16 Eric Rohmer's Talking Heads: Listening to theClassical Text in La Bruyère; 17 Triple Agent: Eric Rohmer and the Tumult of the Interwar Years; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.
Rohmer, Éric, 1920-2010
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Film History.
European Cinema and TV.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Directing.