Textbook
Unraveling French Cinema: From L'Atalante to CachéISBN: 978-1-4051-8451-9
Paperback
232 pages
December 2009, ©2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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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