Cracking Gilles Deleuze's Crystal
Subtitle: Narrative Space-Time in the Films of Jean Renoir
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781474426299
Subjects: Deleuze, gilles, 1925-1995; Motion pictures, philosophy
Description: 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&#x2019;s influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze&#x2019;s film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of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&#x2019;s oeuvre. Exploring canonised landmarks in Renoir&#x2019;s career, including La Grande Illusion (1937) and La R ̐ưegle 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&#x2019;s oeuvre.--