TY - BOOK AU - Hayward,Susan AU - Vincendeau,Ginette TI - French film, texts and contexts / SN - 0415001315 (pbk.) AV - PN 1993.5 F873 1990 U1 - 791.43/0944 PY - 1990/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Motion pictures KW - France KW - History KW - Cine KW - Historia KW - Francia N1 - 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 N2 - Analyses key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and ideas of national history ER -