French film, texts and contexts / edited by Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.Description: ix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415001315 (pbk.)
9780415001311 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

791.43/0944

LOC classification:

PN 1993.5 F873 1990

Contents:

'Poetry of the unconscious' : circuits of desire in two films by Germaine Dulac : La Souriante Mme Beudet (1923) and La Coquille et le clergyman (1927) / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis History and actuality : Abel Gance's Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) / Norman King Discourse, narrative, and the subject of capital : Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1929) / Richard Abel 'Let's sing it one more time' : René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930) / Michel Marie In the name of the father : Marcel Pagnol's 'trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) / Ginette Vincendeau The fleeing gaze : Jean Renoir's La Betê humaine (1938) / Michel Lagny Poetic realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation : Marcel Carné's Le Jour se lève (1939) / Maureen Turim. Beneath the despair, the show goes on : Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-1945) / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas Gender politics : Cocteau's Belle is not that Bête : Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) / Susan Hayward The sacrament of writing : Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / Keith A. Reader A breath of sea air : Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1952) / Pierre Sorlin Casque d'or casquettes, a cask of aging wine : Jacques Becker's Casque d' or (1952) Dudley Andrew How history begets meaning : Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959) / Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier The script of delinquency : François Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959) / Anne Gillain 'It really makes you sick!' : Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1959) / Michel Marie The fall of the gods : Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963) / Jacques Aumont. Eye for irony : Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) / Norman King 'Liberté! egalité! paternité! : Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 / Claire Pajaczkowska Therapeutic realism : Maurice Pailat's A nos amours (1983) / Ginette Vincendeau Representing the sexual impasse : Eric Rohmer's Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) / Berenice Reynaud Beyond the gaze and into femme- filmécriture : Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985) / Susan Hayward

Summary: Analyses key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and ideas of national history.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1993.5 F873 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000193482

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-304) and index.

'Poetry of the unconscious' : circuits of desire in two films by Germaine Dulac : La Souriante Mme Beudet (1923) and La Coquille et le clergyman (1927) / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
History and actuality : Abel Gance's Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) / Norman King
Discourse, narrative, and the subject of capital : Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1929) / Richard Abel
'Let's sing it one more time' : René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930) / Michel Marie
In the name of the father : Marcel Pagnol's 'trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) / Ginette Vincendeau
The fleeing gaze : Jean Renoir's La Betê humaine (1938) / Michel Lagny
Poetic realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation : Marcel Carné's Le Jour se lève (1939) / Maureen Turim. Beneath the despair, the show goes on : Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-1945) / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas
Gender politics : Cocteau's Belle is not that Bête : Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) / Susan Hayward
The sacrament of writing : Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / Keith A. Reader
A breath of sea air : Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1952) / Pierre Sorlin
Casque d'or casquettes, a cask of aging wine : Jacques Becker's Casque d' or (1952) Dudley Andrew
How history begets meaning : Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959) / Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier
The script of delinquency : François Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959) / Anne Gillain
'It really makes you sick!' : Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1959) / Michel Marie
The fall of the gods : Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963) / Jacques Aumont. Eye for irony : Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) / Norman King
'Liberté! egalité! paternité! : Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 / Claire Pajaczkowska
Therapeutic realism : Maurice Pailat's A nos amours (1983) / Ginette Vincendeau
Representing the sexual impasse : Eric Rohmer's Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) / Berenice Reynaud
Beyond the gaze and into femme- filmécriture : Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985) / Susan Hayward

Analyses key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and ideas of national history.

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