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Unraveling French Cinema: From L'Atalante to Caché

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8451-9
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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

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