Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films L'Atalante and Zero de conduite still inspire young audiences today. Film historian Michael Temple explores Vigo's intense career and asks why it has had such a long-lasting impact on film culture, not just in France, but also for generations of filmmakers, critics and cinemagoers around the world. Each film is examined under four headings: social and political context; the making of the film, from conception to release; detailed analysis of narrative structure, main stylistic features and dominant themes and the reception...
Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films L'Atalante and Zero de conduite still inspire young audiences today. Film histo...
One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson. A quintessentially realist filmmaker, who, like Bresson, was also trained as a painter, Pialat's particular form of realism influenced an entire generation of young filmmakers in the 1990s. This volume is the first book-length study of Pialat's cinema in English. It provides an introduction to a complex and difficult director, who saw himself as a marginal and marginalised filmmaker, but whose films are deeply rooted in French society...
One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Br...
This new appraisal of the continuing relevance of the auteur to film-making in French will reinvigorate debate about the historic place of auteurism in French and European cinema. Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French Nouveau Vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the term auteur by Andrew Sarris. Through the work of five important contemporary directors working in the French language, this book...
This new appraisal of the continuing relevance of the auteur to film-making in French will reinvigorate debate about the historic place of auteurism i...
Original and concise reading of Coline Serreau's films, and an in-depth introduction to the female director whose work transcends the boundaries between amateur and mainstream cinema. Appraisal of her work puts her films within the social, cultural and political context of France since 1968
Original and concise reading of Coline Serreau's films, and an in-depth introduction to the female director whose work transcends the boundaries betwe...
