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"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. Phillips also examines the film's innovative narrative construction and use of sound, its performance style and mise-en-scene, and discusses the film's legacy, showing how even today, the term 'Rififi' remains a byword for both criminal glamor and the enduring virtues of French popular classical film making.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Synopsis
I: Introduction
II: The Route to Rififi
A Cosmopolitan Life
Hollywood and Film Noir
The Politics of Exile
The Tradition of French Film Noir
Auguste le Breton and the Série Noire
Production History
III: Reading Rififi
Beginnings
Du rififi chez les hommes and the Aesthetics of the Heist Thriller
Space and Genre: the Nightclub
Space and Genre: the City
Men and Trouble
A Transnational Film Noir?
IV: Reviewing Rififi
A Surprise Success
'A Film Without Indulgence'
The Politics of Realism
Audiences, Trade and Culture
V: Reviving Rififi
After Du rififi chez les hommes
Influences
The Rififi Brand
Rififi Returns
Appendix 1: Credits
Appendix 2: Jules Dassin Filmography
Appendix 3: Auguste le Breton Filmography
Appendix 4: Films referred to in the book
Appendix 5: 'Rififi à travers le monde' Bibliography
Appendix 6: Select Bibliography
