A Companion to Francois Truffaut (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Andrew, Dudley; Gillain, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to François Truffaut "An unprecedented critical tribute to the director who, in France, wound up becoming the most controversial figure of the New Wave he helped found." Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique "This exciting collection breaks through the widely held critical view that Truffaut abandoned the iconoclasm of his early work for an academicism he had consistently railed against in his own film criticism. Indeed, if 'fever' and 'fire' were Truffaut's most consistent motifs, the essays in this collection live up to his lifelong, burning passion for the cinema. Written by world-famous scholars, the essays exhaustively explore the themes and styles of the films, as well as Truffaut's relationships to André Bazin, Alfred Hitchcock, and the directors of the New Wave, his ground-breaking and controversial film criticism, and his position in the complex politics of French cultural life from the Popular Front to 1968 and after." Angelo Restivo, Georgia State University Although the New Wave, one of the most influential aesthetic revolutions in the history of cinema, might not have existed without him, François Truffaut has largely been ignored by film scholars since his death almost thirty years ago. As an innovative theoretician, an influential critic, and a celebrated filmmaker, Truffaut formulated, disseminated, and illustrated the ideals of the New Wave with exceptional energy and distinction. Yet no book in recent years has focused on Truffaut's value, and his overall contribution to cinema deserves to be redefined not only to reinstate him in his proper place but to let us rethink how cinema developed during his lifetime. In this new Companion, thirty-four original essays by leading film scholars offer new readings of individual films and original perspectives on the filmmaker's background, influences, and consequence. Hugely influential around the globe, Truffaut is assessed by international contributors who delve into the unique quality of his narratives and establish the depth of his distinctively styled work. An extended interview with French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin tracks Truffaut's controversial stature within French cinema and vividly identifies how he thinks and works as a director, adding an irreplaceable perspective to this essential volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118321300
• Artikelnr.: 52552529

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)