Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the ‘couple’.
Table of Content
Introduction: acknowledgment and connectedness
1 Remarriage in Hollywood and Europe
2 The falsity of social worlds: The Rules of the Game
3 Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night: acknowledgment and deception
4 Ingmar Bergman: comedies and tragedies
5 Alain Resnais and the communication of love
6 Michelangelo Antonioni: learning how to love
7 Agnès Varda: the construction and destruction of the couple
8 François Truffaut and the impossible couple
9 Federico Fellini: love and forgiveness
10 Jean-Luc Godard: in praise of two
11 Éric Rohmer: the ordinary miracle of love
Index
About the author
Richard Rushton is Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University
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