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A companion to Jean Renoir /
Francois 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 critic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts :
Wiley-Blackwell,
[2013]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2013. |
| Edición: | [Enhanced Credo edition]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part III Renoir, a National and a Transnational Figure. Section 1 Renoir, the Chronicler of French Society. 23 Renoir under the Popular Front: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Paradoxes of Engagement / Brett Bowles
- 24 The Performance of History in La Marseillaise / Tom Brown
- 25 Toni: A Regional Melodrama of Failed Masculinity / Keith Reader
- 26 La Règle du jeu: A Document of French Everyday Life / Christopher Faulkner
- 27 Renoir's Jews in Context / Maureen Turim
- Section 2 Renoir, the Transnational Figure. 28 Renoir's War / Julian Jackson
- 29 Interconnected Sites of Struggle: Resituating Renoir's Career in Hollywood / Elizabeth Vitanza
- 30 The Southerner: Touching Relationships / Edward Gallafent
- 31 The Woman on the Beach: Renoir's Dark Lady / Jean-Loup Bourget
- 32 Remaking Renoir in Hollywood / Lucy Mazdon.
- Part II Renoir: The Wider View. Section 1 Renoir's Filmmaking and the Arts. 11 Seeing with His Own Eyes: Renoir and Photography / Alastair Phillips
- 12 Popular Songs in Renoir's Films of the 1930s / Kelley Conway
- 13 Renoir and the Popular Theater of His Time / Geneviève Sellier
- 14 Theatricality and Spectacle in La Règle du jeu, Le Carrosse d'or, and Éléna et les hommes / Thomas Elsaesser
- 15 French Cancan: A Song and Dance about Women / Ginette Vincendeau
- 16 Social Roles/Political Responsibilities: The Evolving Figure of the Artist in Renoir's Films, 1928-1939 / Charles Musser
- Section 2 Renoir's Place in the Critical Canon. 17 Seeing through Renoir, Seen through Bazin / Dudley Andrew
- 18 Henri Agel's Cinema of Contemplation: Renoir and Philosophy / Sarah Cooper
- 19 Renoir and the French Communist Party: The Grand Disillusion / Laurent Marie
- 20 "Better than a Masterpiece": Revisiting the Reception of La Règle du jeu / Claude Gauteur
- 21 Renoir and the French New Wave / Richard Neupert
- 22 Renoir between the Public, the Professors, and the Polls / Ian Christie.
- Introduction: Renoir In and Out of His Time / Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau
- Part I Renoir in Close-Up. Section 1 Reassessing Renoir's Aesthetics. 1 Shooting in Deep Time: The Mise en Scène of History in Renoir's Films of the 1930s / Martin O'Shaughnessy
- 2 The Exception and the Norm: Relocating Renoir's Sound and Music / Charles O'Brien
- 3 The Invention of French Talking Cinema: Language in Renoir's Early Sound Films / Michel Marie
- 4 Renoir and His Actors: The Freedom of Puppets / Christophe Damour
- 5 Design at Work: Renoir's Costume Dramas of the 1950s / Susan Hayward
- Section 2 Critical Focus on Selected Films. 6 Sur un air de Charleston, Nana, La Petite Marchande d'allumettes, Tire au flanc: Renoir and the Ethics of Play / Anne M. Kern
- 7 La Grande Illusion: Sound, Silence, and the Displacement of Emotion / Valerie Orpen
- 8 La Bête humaine: Double Murder at the Station at Le Havre / Olivier Curchod
- 9 La Règle du jeu: Lies, Truth, and Irresolution (A Critical Round Table) / Christopher Faulkner, Martin O'Shaughnessy, and V.F. Perkins
- 10 The River: Beneath the Surface with André Bazin / Prakash Younger.