The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks

ISBN-13: 9781839022296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Peter Graham; Ginette Vincendeau

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Preface to the 2022 edition Preface to the 2009 Edition Preface to the 1968 Edition Introduction (updated): Sixty Years of the French New Wave 1. The politique des auteurs: foundational texts The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo ALEXANDRE ASTRUC A Certain Tendency in French Cinema FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT The Evolution of Film Language ANDRÉ BAZIN La Politique des auteurs ANDRÉ BAZIN 2. Critical debates: authorship and mise-en-scène The Delights of Ambiguity: In Praise of André Bazin GÉRARD GOZLAN Little Themes CLAUDE CHABROL. Review of Alexandre Astruc’s Une vie JEAN-LUC GODARD. The Emperor Has No Clothes ROBERT BENAYOUN. Interview with François Truffaut CAHIERS DU CINÉMA. 3. Authorship-mise-en-scène Case Study: the reception of A bout de souffle Contrasting Views of A bout de souffle: Jean-Luc Godard LUC MOULLET . A bout de souffle RAYMONDE BORDE . Le Quai des brumes 1960: A bout de souffle by Jean-Luc Godard GEORGES SADOUL. 4. Critical debates: The Missing Perspective, gender and politics Identikit of the ‘New Wave’ heroine EVELYNE SULLEROT Goodnight, Doctor Kinsey PIERRE KAST Three texts by MICHÈLE FIRK Hiroshima mon amour, the heart and the mind FRANÇOISE AUDÉ 5. Gender Case study: the reception of Agnès Varda MONOD: La Pointe courte; SADOUL: Cleo de 5 a 7; BORY: Cleo de 5 a 7 Bibliography (updated) Index (updated)