French Film : Texts and Contexts (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Introduction Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau . the name of the father:Marcel Pagnol's 'trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), Cesar (1936) Ginette Vincendeau 2.Paris, Arizona; or The Redemption of Difference: Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935) Christopher Faulkner 3.The fleeing gaze: The fleeing gaze: Jean Renoir's La Bete humaine (1938) Michele Lagny 4. Poetic Realism as psychoanalytical ideological operation:Marcel Carne's Le Jour se leve (1939) Maureen Turim 5. Beneath the despair, the show goes on:Marcel Carne's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-45) Jean-Pierre Jeancolas 6. The sacramentof writing: Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un cure de campagne (1951) Keith Reader 7. A breath of sea air: Jacques Tati's Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1952) Pierre Sorlin 8. Casques d'or, casquettes, a cask of aging wine: Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1952) Dudley Andrew 9. No place for homosexuality: Marcel Carne's L'Air de Paris (1954) IRichard Dryer 10, The script of delinquency: Francois Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959) Anne Gillian 11. 'It really makes you sick!': Jean-Luc Godard's About the souffle (1959) Michel Marie 12. The fall of the gods: Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris (1963) Jacques Aumont 13. Mise-en-scence degree zero: Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967) Colin McAtrhur 14. Eye for Irony: Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) Norman King 15. Sex,Politics and Popular Culture: Bernard Blier's Les Valseuses (1973) Jill Forbes 16.The anti-carnival of collaboration: Louis Malle's acombe Lucien (1974) H.R. Kedward 17. Maternal The legacies: Diane Kurys' Coup de foudre (1983) Carrie Tarr 18. Representing the sexual impasse: Eric Rohmer's Les nuits de la pleine lune (1984) Berenice Reynaud 19. Beyond the gaze and into femme-filmecriture: Agnes Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985) Susan Hayward 20. Versions, verse and verve: Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Julianne Pidduck 21. Recycled woman and the postmodern aesthetic: Luc Besson's Nikita (1990) Susan Hayward 22. Designs on the banlieue: Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (1995) Ginette Vincendeau Selected bilbliography on French Cinema Index