A Companion to Jean Renoir

Herausgegeben von Phillips, Alastair; Vincendeau, Ginette

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Produktbeschreibung

Dubbed simply 'the best director' by François Truffaut, Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world film history. This exhaustive survey of his work and life features a comprehensive analysis of his films from the multiple critical perspectives of the world's leading Renoir scholars. Renoir's films are notable for their paradoxical combination of strong internal coherence and thematic breadth and diversity, and provide a rich source for today's scholars of film history and French culture. The most ambitious critical study of Renoir to date, this book will appeal to film enthusiasts as much as scholars and specialists.

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François Truffaut called him, simply, 'the best'. Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world cinema and fully justifies this monumental survey that includes contributions from leading international film scholars and comprehensively analyzes Renoir's life and career from numerous critical perspectives.

New and original research by the world's leading English and French language Renoir scholars explores stylistic, cultural and ideological aspects of Renoir's films as well as key biographical periods
Thematic structure admits a range of critical methodologies, from textual analysis to archival research, cultural studies, gender-based and philosophical approaches
Features detailed analysis of Renoir's essential works
Provides an international perspective on this key auteur's enduring significance in world film history

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors (WBCF)
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A444338530
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1263g
• ISBN-13: 9781444338539
• ISBN-10: 1444338536
• Artikelnr.: 37245832

Autorenporträt

Alastair Phillips is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Rififi (2009), and City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 (2004). He is co-author of 100 Film Noirs (2009) and co-editor, with Ginette Vincendeau, of Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) as well as, with Julian Stringer, of Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2007). Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK. Among her books are Jean Gabin: anatomie d'un mythe, with Claude Gauteur (1993, 2006), Pépé le Moko (1998), Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (2003), and La Haine (2005). She co-edited Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) and The New French Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv Notes on the Text xvii
Introduction: Renoir In and Out of His Time 1 Alastair Phillips and Ginette
Vincendeau Part I Renoir in Close-Up 13 Section 1 Reassessing Renoir's
Aesthetics 15 1 Shooting in Deep Time: The Mise en Scène of History in
Renoir's Films of the 1930s 16 Martin O'Shaughnessy 2 The Exception and the
Norm: Relocating Renoir's Sound and Music 35 Charles O'Brien 3 The
Invention of French Talking Cinema: Language in Renoir's Early Sound Films
53 Michel Marie 4 Renoir and His Actors: The Freedom of Puppets 72
Christophe Damour 5 Design at Work: Renoir's Costume Dramas of the 1950s 88
Susan Hayward Section 2 Critical Focus on Selected Films 107 6 Sur un air
de Charleston, Nana, La Petite Marchande d'allumettes, Tire au flanc:
Renoir and the Ethics of Play 108 Anne M. Kern 7 La Grande Illusion: Sound,
Silence, and the Displacement of Emotion 121 Valerie Orpen 8 La Bête
humaine: Double Murder at the Station at Le Havre 131 Olivier Curchod 9 La
Règle du jeu: Lies, Truth, and Irresolution (A Critical Round Table) 144
Christopher Faulkner, Martin O'Shaughnessy, and V. F. Perkins 10 The River:
Beneath the Surface with André Bazin 166 Prakash Younger Part II Renoir:
The Wider View 177 Section 1 Renoir's Filmmaking and the Arts 179 11 Seeing
with His Own Eyes: Renoir and Photography 180 Alastair Phillips 12 Popular
Songs in Renoir's Films of the 1930s 199 Kelley Conway 13 Renoir and the
Popular Theater of His Time 219 Geneviève Sellier 14 Theatricality and
Spectacle in La Règle du jeu, Le Carrosse d'or, and Éléna et les hommes 237
Thomas Elsaesser 15 French Cancan: A Song and Dance about Women 255 Ginette
Vincendeau 16 Social Roles/Political Responsibilities: The Evolving Figure
of the Artist in Renoir's Films, 1928-1939 270 Charles Musser Section 2
Renoir's Place in the Critical Canon 291 17 Seeing through Renoir, Seen
through Bazin 292 Dudley Andrew 18 Henri Agel's Cinema of Contemplation:
Renoir and Philosophy 313 Sarah Cooper 19 Renoir and the French Communist
Party: The Grand Disillusion 328 Laurent Marie 20 "Better than a
Masterpiece": Revisiting the Reception of La Règle du jeu 347 Claude
Gauteur 21 Renoir and the French New Wave 356 Richard Neupert 22 Renoir
between the Public, the Professors, and the Polls 375 Ian Christie Part III
Renoir, a National and a Transnational Figure 395 Section 1 Renoir, the
Chronicler of French Society 397 23 Renoir under the Popular Front:
Aesthetics, Politics, and the Paradoxes of Engagement 398 Brett Bowles 24
The Performance of History in La Marseillaise 425 Tom Brown 25 Toni: A
Regional Melodrama of Failed Masculinity 444 Keith Reader 26 La Règle du
jeu: A Document of French Everyday Life 454 Christopher Faulkner 27
Renoir's Jews in Context 474 Maureen Turim Section 2 Renoir, the
Transnational Figure 493 28 Renoir's War 494 Julian Jackson 29
Interconnected Sites of Struggle: Resituating Renoir's Career in Hollywood
514 Elizabeth Vitanza 30 The Southerner: Touching Relationships 533 Edward
Gallafent 31 The Woman on the Beach: Renoir's Dark Lady 544 Jean-Loup
Bourget 32 Remaking Renoir in Hollywood 555 Lucy Mazdon Filmography 572
Select Bibliography 585 Index 592

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"Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau have brought together essays that bring new perspectives to both the best-known and the lesser-known of Renoir's films. Both French cinema specialists and viewers new to Renoir's work will find much of interest in this outstanding collection." -- Judith Mayne, Ohio State University

"An extraordinary collection of essays that more than fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau. The essays offer exciting, original work from younger scholars as well as long-established authorities, all of which offer invaluable insights into the films, writings, and life of Jean Renoir. Receiving particular attention are questions about the singularity or multiplicity of what the editors call the many 'Renoirs' (French, American, Indian; even transnational), especially from the early 1930s through the early 1960s. Whether mining relatively unexplored archive materials, deploying newly current methodological approaches, interrogating one of a wide range of topics and issues, or engaging in close textual analysis, the contributors construct a tantalizing series of innovative 'road maps' for future researchers to pursue." -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan

"Phillips and Vincendeau's volume is intelligently organized, extremely comprehensive, and generously illustrated with images from many of the films. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionanls." (Choice, 1 January 2014)