A Companion to François Truffaut

Herausgegeben von Andrew, Dudley; Gillain, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

The 34 essays of this collection by leading internationalscholars reassess Truffaut s impact on cinema as they locate theunique quality of his thematic obsessions and his remarkablenarrative techniques. Almost 30 years after his death, we arepresented with strikingly original perspectives on his background,influences, and importance.Bridges a gap in film scholarship with aseries of 34 original essays by leading film scholars that assessthe lasting impact of Truffaut's work

Provides striking new readings of individual films, and newperspectives on Truffaut's background, influences, andimportance
Offers a wide choice of critical perspectives ranging fromcurrent reflections in film theories to articles applyingmethodologies that have recently been neglected or consideredcontroversial
Includes international viewpoints from a range of Europeancountries, and from Japan, New Zealand, and Brazil
Draws on Truffaut's archives at the BiFI (Bibliotheque dufilm) in Paris
Includes an extended interview with French filmmaker ArnaudDesplechin concerning Truffaut's shifting stature in Frenchfilm culture and his manner of thought and work as a director

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405198470
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1283g
• ISBN-13: 9781405198479
• ISBN-10: 1405198478
• Artikelnr.: 37242975

Autorenporträt

Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, USA. He is the author or editor of nine books, including The Major Film Theories, Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (2005), What Cinema Is! (2010), and Opening Bazin (2011), which won the SCMS Best Anthology Award for 2011. Anne Gillain is professor emeritus at Wellesley College, USA. She is known for her work on French cinema, particularly François Truffaut, in books that include Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut (1988), Les 400 Coups (1991), and François Truffaut: The Lost Secret (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xv Filmography xxiii
Part I La Planète Truffaut 1 1. Interview with Arnaud Desplechin, Part I:
Truffaut and His Position 3 Anne Gillain and Dudley Andrew 2. Truffaut and
His "Doubles" 23 Martin Lefebvre 3. Aesthetic Affinities: François
Truffaut, Patrick Modiano, Douglas Sirk 71 Anne Gillain 4. Interview with
Arnaud Desplechin, Part II: Truffaut and His Methods 105 Anne Gillain and
Dudley Andrew Part II Style and Sensibility 125 5. Flashes of Happiness 127
Alain Bergala 6. Truffaut and the Photographic: Cinema, Fetishism, Death
137 Junji Hori 7. The Impasse of Intimacy: Romance and Tragedy in
Truffaut's Cinema 153 John Orr 8. A Fine Madness: Digressions on
Pathologies in Truffaut's Films 173 Francis Vanoye 9. The Ecstatic Pan 184
Phil Powrie 10. The Untimely Moment and the Correct Distance 205 Adrian
Martin Part III The Making of a Filmmaker 219 11. Every Teacher Needs a
Truant: Bazin and L'Enfant sauvage 221 Dudley Andrew 12. Certain Tendencies
of Truffaut's Film Criticism 242 Richard Neupert 13. Truffaut-Hitchcock 265
Jonathan Everett Haynes 14. The Paradox of "Familiarity": Truffaut, Heir of
Renoir 283 Ludovic Cortade 15. Cain and Abel: Godard and Truffaut 300
Michel Marie 16. Friction, Failure, and Fire: Truffaut as Adaptive Auteur
317 Timothy Corrigan Part IV Truffaut and His Time 333 17. Growing Up with
the French New Wave 335 James Tweedie 18. Bad Objects: Truffaut's
Radicalism 356 Sam Di Iorio 19. Between Renoir and Hitchcock: The Paradox
of Truffaut's Women 375 Ginette Vincendeau 20. Truffaut in the Mirror of
Japan 388 Kan Nozaki Part V Films 401 21. Directing Children: The Double
Meaning of Self-Consciousness 403 Angela Dalle Vacche 22. Jules et Jim ...
et Walter Benjamin 420 Dudley Andrew 23. Digging Up the Past: Jules et Jim
434 Elizabeth Ezra 24. The Elevator and the Telephone: On Urgency in La
Peau douce 448 Michel Chion 25. La Peau douce: A Psychogeography of Silky
Cinephilia 454 Tom Conley 26. La Peau douce: François Truffaut's Passionate
Object 469 Hilary Radner 27. An Unsettling Passage: From Les Deux Anglaises
et le continent to La Chambre verte 489 Carlos Losilla 28. The Structural
Role of Intervals in L'Argent de poche 507 Alain Bergala 29. To Die or to
Love: Modern Don Juans in Truffaut and Oliveira 517 Luiza Jatobá 30. Film
as Literature: or the Truffaldian Malaise (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes)
530 Lúcia Nagib 31. The Elegist: François Truffaut inside La Chambre verte
546 Philip Watts 32. La Chambre verte and the Beating Heart of Truffaut's
Oeuvre 561 Françoise Zamour 33. Le Dernier Métro: An Underground Golden
Coach 571 Jean-Michel Frodon 34. Disillusionment and Magic in La Nuit
américaine and Le Dernier Métro 584 Marc Vernet Index 594

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"A superb compendium of 34 critical essays on the late French film director ... Truffaut's deeply human and penetrating films come alive for the reader. A splendid 'companion' offering fresh insight and thoughtful analysis on every page. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 September 2013)