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Tables of Contents for French Film
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
ix
Notes on contributors
xi
Preface
xv
Acknowledgements
xvii
Introduction
1
8
Susan Hayward
Ginette Vincendeau
In the name of the father: Marcel Pagnol's `trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), Cesar (1936)
9
18
Ginette Vincendeau
Paris, Arizona; or the redemption of difference: Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935)
27
15
Christopher Faulkner
The fleeing gaze: Jean Renoir's La Bete humaine (1938)
42
21
Michele Lagny
Poetic realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation: Marcel Carne's Le Jour se leve (1939)
63
15
Maureen Turim
Beneath the despair, the show goes on: Marcel Carne's Les Enfants du paradis (1943--5)
78
11
Jean-Pierre Jeancolas
The sacrament of writing: Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un cure de campagne (1951)
89
11
Keith A. Reader
A breath of sea air: Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1952)
100
12
Pierre Sorlin
Casque d'or, casquettes, a cask of ageing wine: Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1952)
112
15
Dudley Andrew
No place for homosexuality: Marcel Carne's L'Air de Paris (1954)
127
15
Richard Dyer
The script of delinquency: Francois Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959)
142
16
Anne Gillain
`It really makes you sick!': Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1959)
158
16
Michel Marie
The fall of the gods: Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris (1963)
174
15
Jacques Aumont
Mise-en-scene degree zero: Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967)
189
13
Colin McArthur
Eye for irony: Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
202
11
Norman King
Sex, politics and popular culture: Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses (1973)
213
14
Jill Forbes
The anti-carnival of collaboration: Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien (1974)
227
13
H. R. Kedward
Maternal legacies: Diane Kurys' Coup de foudre (1983)
240
13
Carrie Tarr
Representing the sexual impasse: Eric Rohmer's Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)
253
16
Bernice Reynaud
Beyond the gaze and into femme-filmecriture: Agnes Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985)
269
12
Susan Hayward
Versions, verse and verve: Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
281
16
Julianne Pidduck
Recycled woman and the postmodern aesthetic: Luc Besson's Nikita (1990)
297
13
Susan Hayward
Designs on the banlieue: Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (1995)
310
18
Ginette Vincendeau
Selected bibliography on French cinema
328
9
Index
337