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Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema

Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema


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Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels, but the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature. With subversive techniques that exploded traditional methods of film narrative, they embraced fragmentation and alienation. Their cinema would be literature's rival, not its apprentice. In this book, T. Jefferson Kline argues that the New Wave's rebellious stance is far more complex and problematic than critics have acknowledged. Challenging conventional views of film and literature in post-war France, Kline explores the New Wave's unconscious obsession with the tradition it claimed to reject. He uncovers the wide range of the literary and cultural texts - American films, classical mythology, French literature and a variety of Russian, Norwegian, German, and English writers and philosophers - as "screened" in seven films: Truffaut's "Jules et Jim"; Malle's "Les Amants"; Resnais's "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad"; Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge"; Rohmer's "Ma Nuit chez Maud"; Bresson's "Pickpocket"; and Godard's "Pierrot le Fou".

About the Author :
T. Jefferson Kline is a professor of French at Boston University.

Review :
Kline's readings are immensely persuasive. His book is scholarly and erudite, and his familiarity with the byways of French and American literature is impressive. Screen This is a book which will provide useful literary background to students and teachers of the New Wave. Sight and Sound Important [and] valuable... The French 'New Wave' may well have brought an end to the cinema de qualite but doubt is frequently expressed about the real importance of its own achievements. Kline's very welcome book manages to mark out new terrain for investigation in this area, as well as indicating some unexpected depths in the films he examines. -- Thomas Ennis Modern and Contemporary France This is a remarkable book, the first (known to me) of its kind and something of a tour de force... [Kline's thesis is] applied with rigor and sensitivity. -- Keith A. Reader French Studies


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  • ISBN-13: 9780801874314
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801874319
  • Publisher Date: 26 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 499 gr


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