A Companion to Jean Renoir
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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…mehr

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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.
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
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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).
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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)