Unraveling French cinema
Subtitle: from L'Atlante to Caché
By: T. Jefferson Kline.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781405184526; 9781405184519
Subjects: Motion pictures -- France
Description: 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 contempora.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Film and/as poetry: L'Atalante's apples as poems; title: film and the real: Renoir's rules; title: Cinema and/as crime: Carne, Bresson and Godard; title: Cinema and/as mapping: reorienting ourselves through film; title: To film perchance to dream: Truffaut's royal road; title: Cinema and/as hypnosis: Jacquot's Seventh heaven; title: Cinema and/as mourning: how not to kill your father; title: Cinema and/as terror: Michael Haneke's Caché; title: Beautiful fragments: discontinuity and the French cinema.