Silent renoir 1st ed.

Author

• Davis, Colin

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030630270

Series

Subject(s)

• MOTION PICTURES
• MOTION PICTURES AND TELEVISION
• RENOIR, JEAN, 1894-1979

Notes

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Abstract

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works such as Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, La Bête humaine and La Règle du jeu. However, the great director’s early work from the 1920s remains almost completely unknown, even to film specialists. If it is discussed at all, it is often seen to be of interest only insofar as it anticipates themes and techniques perfected in the later masterpieces. Renoir’s films of the 1920s were sometimes unfinished, commercially unsuccessful, or unreleased at the time of their production. This book argues that to regard them merely as prefigurations of later achievements entails a failure to view them on their own terms, as searching, unsettled experiments in the meaning and potential of film art.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (ix,142 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction: Renoir Goes to the Cinema --
But is it Art?: Heidegger and the (Moving) Images and the interpretation of early film --
Philosophy and Film (Again): From Ontology to Hermeneutics --
Reading and Overreading Film --
The Woman Who Wasn't There: Catherine Hessling --
The Missing Real: La Fille de l'eau and La Petite Marchande d'allumettes --
In Pursuit of the Untamed Other: Sur un air de Charleston and Le Bled --
Traces of War: Erasing Memory in Tire-au-flanc --
Conclusion.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00784/21	791.430233092 Dav S	Online !	Available