By T. Jefferson Kline(auth.)
ISBN-10: 1405184523
ISBN-13: 9781405184526
ISBN-10: 1444315536
ISBN-13: 9781444315530
Unraveling French Cinema offers a miles wanted creation to the complexities of French movie for college kids, cineastes, and the movie-loving public.
- Looks on the changes among French and American nationwide cinema
- Explores how French administrators form their motion pictures round most likely divergent pursuits: the narration of a narrative and an elaboration of a few thought approximately movie itself.
- Demystifies the "difficulty" of French cinema, permitting the yank movie-goer to take pleasure in movies which are too frequently confusing at a primary viewing.
- Offers prolonged analyses of vintage, New Wave, and modern French films—including L'Atalante, Adele H., The ideas of the Game, and Cache.
Content:
Chapter 1 Cinema and/as Poetry: L'Atalante's Apples as Poems (pages 13–34):
Chapter 2 Cinema and the genuine: Renoir's ideas (pages 35–53):
Chapter three Cinema and/as Crime: Breaking the legislation within the youngsters of Paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless (pages 26–50):
Chapter four Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves via movie (pages 83–108):
Chapter five Cinema and/as Dream: Truffaut's “Royal highway” to Adele H. (pages 109–131):
Chapter 6 Cinema and/as Hypnosis: Jacquot's 7th Heaven (pages 132–147):
Chapter 7 Cinema and/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine's How I Killed My Father (pages 148–164):
Chapter eight Cinema and/as Terror: Michael Haneke's Cache (pages 165–178):
Chapter nine attractive Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema (pages 179–192):
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No one seems capable of an original or truly spontaneous act; all are caught in a hall of mirrors of their own making. ) – a stage to which Robert will later return to play out the film’s final piece of hypocrisy. So, the use of deep focus in this scene allows us to see how tiny is each individual’s share of spontaneity and/or originality. Everyone seems “destined” to replicate the actions of those around them. indd 45 9/15/2009 5:59:45 PM 46 Cinema and the Real We must not fail to notice, amidst all of this chaos, chasing and gunfire that there is another sort of depth of field operating in this film.
The best introduction to film analysis, Bordwell and Thompson provide an overview of the technology of film production and technique. There is also a useful section on French Impressionism and Surrealism that provides an excellent context for the present chapter. indd 34 9/15/2009 5:59:10 PM 2 Cinema and the Real Renoir’s Rules “Cinema is a matter of style … and style is a moral fact. An angle, a shot in film has its own moral. A tracking shot, for example may be moral or not moral. ” (Bernardo Bertolucci)1 There could perhaps be no greater contrast than that between the opening images of Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante and those of Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game.
Contains an excellent essay on Vigo’s films. Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. (1990), Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw Hill. The best introduction to film analysis, Bordwell and Thompson provide an overview of the technology of film production and technique. There is also a useful section on French Impressionism and Surrealism that provides an excellent context for the present chapter. indd 34 9/15/2009 5:59:10 PM 2 Cinema and the Real Renoir’s Rules “Cinema is a matter of style … and style is a moral fact.