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The 34 essays of this collection by leading international scholars reassess Truffaut's impact on cinema as they locate the unique quality of his thematic obsessions and his remarkable narrative techniques. Almost 30 years after his death, we are presented with strikingly original perspectives on his background, influences, and importance.Bridges a gap in film scholarship with a series of 34 original essays by leading film scholars that assess the lasting impact of Truffaut's work Provides striking new readings of individual films, and new perspectives on Truffaut's background, influences, and importance Offers a wide choice of critical perspectives ranging from current reflections in film theories to articles applying methodologies that have recently been neglected or considered controversial Includes international viewpoints from a range of European countries, and from Japan, New Zealand, and Brazil Draws on Truffaut's archives at the BiFI (Bibliotheque du film) in Paris Includes an extended interview with French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin concerning Truffaut's shifting stature in French film culture and his manner of thought and work as a director

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Preface Filmography Part I: LA PLANETE TRUFFAUT 1. Interview, Part I: Truffaut and the Generations Arnaud Desplechin 2. Truffaut and his "Doubles" Martin Lefebvre 3. Aesthetic Affinities: Truffaut, Modiano, Sirk Anne Gillain 4. Interview, Part II: Truffaut and his Methods Arnaud Desplechin Part II: STYLE AND SENSIBILITY 5. Flashes of Happiness Alain Bergala 6. Truffaut and the Photographic: Cinema, Fetishism, Death Junji Hori 7. The Impasse of Intimacy: Romance and Tragedy in Truffaut's Cinema John Orr 8. A Fine Madness: Digressions on Pathologies in Truffaut's Films Francis Vanoye 9. The Ecstatic Pan Phil Powrie 10. The Untimely Moment and the Correct Distance Adrian Martin Part III: THE MAKING OF A FILMMAKER 11. Every Teacher needs a Truant (Bazin and L'Enfant Sauvage ) Dudley Andrew 12. Certain Tendencies of Truffaut's Film Criticism Richard Neupert 13. Truffaut-Hitchcock Jonathan Haynes 14. The Paradox of "Familiarity": Truffaut, Heir of Renoir Ludovic Cortade 15. Cain and Abel: Godard and Truffaut Michel Marie 16. Friction, Failure, and Fire: Truffaut as Adaptive Auteur Timothy Corrigan Part IV: TRUFFAUT AND HIS TIME 17. Growing up with the French New Wave James Tweedie 18. Bad Objects: Truffaut's Radicalism Sam Di Iorio 19. Between Renoir and Hitchcock: The Paradox of Truffaut's Women Ginette Vincendeau 20. Truffaut in the Mirror of Japan Kan Nozaki Part V: FILMS 21. Directing Children: the Double Meaning of Self-Consciousness ( Les 400 Coups ) Angela Dalle Vacche 22. Jules et Jim ...et Walter Benjamin Dudley Andrew 23. Digging up the past: Jules et Jim Elizabeth Ezra 24. The Elevator and the Telephone: On Urgency in La Peau douce Michel Chion 25. La Peau douce : A Psychogeography of Silky Cinephilia Tom Conley 26. La Peau douce : Truffaut's passionate object Hilary Radner 27. An Unsettling Passage: From Les Deux Anglaises et le continent to La Chambre verte Carlos Losilla 28. The Structural Role of Intervals in L'Argent de poche Alain Bergala 29. To Die or to Love: Modern Don Juans in Truffaut and Oliveira ( L'Homme qui aimait les femmes ) Luiza Jatoba 30. Film as Literature, or the Truffauldian Malaise ( L'Homme qui aimait les femmes ) Lucia Nagib 31. The Elegist: Francois Truffaut inside La Chambre verte Philip Watts 32. La Chambre verte , and the Beating Heart of Truffaut's Oeuvre Francoise Zamour 33. Le Dernier Metro , an Underground Golden Coach Jean-Michel Frodon 34. Disillusionment and Magic in La Nuit americaine and Le Dernier Metro Marc Vernet

About the Author :
Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale. 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 a Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. She is known for her work on French cinema, particularly Francois Truffaut, in books that include Le Cinema selon Francois Truffaut (1988), Les 400 Coups (1991) and Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret (2013).

Review :
"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)


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  • ISBN-13: 9781118321591
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 250 mm
  • No of Pages: 640
  • Weight: 666 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1118321596
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2013
  • Binding: Other digital
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 150 mm


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