Jean Renoir

Bazin, André

Da Capo Press Inc（1992/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780306804656
• DDC分類 791.4302330922

Full Description

This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist and François Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle vague. Bazin left this examination of Renoir's films unfinished when he died in 1958 Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other Cahiers du Cinéma regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoir's oeuvre, from the avant-garde fantasy of La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, through the epic humanism of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, to the quiet grace of The River and the profound theatricality of The Golden Coach. Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoir's work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elabourated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.

Contents

* Introduction by Franois Truffaut * Andr Bazins Little Beret by Jean Renoir Part One * The Silent Films * The First Talking Films * The Era of the Popular Front * The War Approaches * The French Renoir * Renoir in Hollywood * Renoir Returns * A Pure Masterpiece: The River * Renoir and the Theater * Renoirs Third Period Part Two * Memories by Jean Renoir * The First Version of The Crime of M. Lange * An Early Treatment of Grand Illusion * Before The Rules of the Game: An Interview with Jean Renoir * An Early Scenario for The Rules of the Game