Unraveling French Cinema provides a much needed introduction
to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the
movie-loving public.
* Looks at the differences between French and American national
cinema
* Explores how French directors shape their films around two
potentially divergent goals: the narration of a story and an
elaboration of some theory about film itself.
* Demystifies the ‘difficulty’ of French cinema, allowing the
American movie-goer to enjoy films that are too often perplexing at
a first viewing.
* Offers extended analyses of classic, New Wave, and contemporary
French films–including L’Atalante, Adele H.,
The Rules of the Game, and Cache.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction 1
1 Cinema and/as Poetry: L’Atalante’s Apples as Poems 13
2 Cinema and the Real: Renoir’s Rules 35
3 Cinema and/as Crime: Breaking the Law in The Children of Paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless 54
4 Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film 83
5 Cinema and/as Dream: Truffaut’s ‘Royal Road’ to Adele H. 109
6 Cinema and/as Hypnosis: Jacquot’s Seventh Heaven 132
7 Cinema and/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine’s How I Killed My Father 148
8 Cinema and/as Terror: Michael Haneke’s Caché 165
9 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema 179
Notes 193
References 212
Index 219
About the author
T. Jefferson Kline is a Professor of French at Boston University where he served as Chair of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (1979-88) and more recently received a Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching. His publications include Bertolucci’s Dream Loom, I film di Bertolucci, Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema and various edited works and essays on literature.
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