LEADER 05534nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910138860603321 005 20240516003936.0 010 $a1-118-32532-X 010 $a1-118-32531-1 010 $a1-78402-062-1 010 $a1-118-32533-8 010 $a1-299-47626-0 010 $a1-118-32534-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001020383 035 $a(EBL)1170677 035 $a(OCoLC)841312666 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11957764 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10877389 035 $a(PQKB)10437289 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3058936 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1170677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3058936 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10690365 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL478876 035 $a(OCoLC)858951354 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001020383 100 $a20121207d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to Jean Renoir /$fedited by Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHoboken, N.J. $cWiley-Blackwell$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (636 p.) 225 0 $aWiley-Blackwell companions to film directors 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-32535-4 311 $a1-4443-3853-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA Companion to Jean Renoir; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction: Renoir In and Out of His Time; Close-Up on Renoir's Aesthetics; Renoir's Film making and the Arts; Shifting Places in the Critical Canon; French Renoir; International Renoir; Notes; References; PART I: Renoir in Close-Up; Section 1: Reassessing Renoir's Aesthetics; 1 Shooting in Deep Time: The Mise en Sce?ne of History in Renoir's Films of the 1930's; Opening Shots: Approaching Renoir's Style; The Mise en Sce?ne of History and the Need to See in Depth; From Bazin to Deleuze 327 $aEmbedded Framings, Shifting Frames Historicity as Uncertainty; The Loss of Solidity; Conclusion; Note; References; 2 The Exception and the Norm: Relocating Renoir's Sound and Music; Renoir's Career: An Overview; Sound as a Function of Studio Conditions; An Actor-Centered Technique; Renoir's Music; Renoir's Awareness of Himself as a Sound Innovator; References; 3 The Invention of French Talking Cinema: Language in Renoir's Early Sound Films; A Manifesto for Sound Cinema: La Chienne; Sound as Substance; Voice and Speech: Social Classes and Oddball Characters 327 $aRenoir's Experimental Phase from La Nuit du carrefour to Toni Partie de campagne and Les Bas-fonds; Renoir the Actor: Pe?re Poulain, Cabuche, Octave; Conclusion: Renoir - A Cinema of Discrepancy; Note; References; 4 Renoir and His Actors: The Freedom of Puppets; An "Aesthetic of Discrepancy"; Renoir: Naturalist Filmmaker and Anthropologist; Capturing a Performance; From the Puppet-Master to the Documentary Filmmaker; Renoir, a Forerunner of Modernity; The Faked and the Spontaneous; Renoir: A "Hitchcocko-Langian"?; Renoir's Little Zoo; Notes; References 327 $a5 Design at Work: Renoir's Costume Dramas of the 1950's Introduction: Worshiping the Artificial - Eye-Catching Decor; Le Carrosse d' or; French Cancan; E?le?na et les hommes; Conclusion: Decor as Enlightenment; Notes; References; Section 2: Critical Focus on Selected Films; 6 Sur un air de Charleston, Nana, La Petite Marchande d'allumettes, Tire au flanc: Renoir and the Ethics of Play; Nana; Sur un air de Charleston; La Petite Marchande d' allumettes; Tire au flanc; Notes; References; 7 La Grande Illusion: Sound, Silence, and the Displacement of Emotion; Sounds and Silence; A Multilingual Film 327 $aThe Bonding Third Language Note; References; 8 La Be?te humaine: Double Murder at the Station at Le Havre; Coup de The?a?tre; Beginning the Investigation: Script Archives, First Clues; Hypothesis 1; Investigation (Continued): Mixed Messages; Hypothesis 2; Investigation (Provisional Conclusion): Two or Three Murders at the Station at Le Havre; The Story Goes On; Notes; References; 9 La Re?gle du jeu: Lies, Truth, and Irresolution (A Critical Round Table); Notes; 10 The River: Beneath the Surface with Andre? Bazin; Introduction: "Nothing but Reality"?; Bazin's Unanswered Questions 327 $aA Double Perspective 330 $aFranc?ois Truffaut called him, simply, 'the best'. Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world cinema and fully justifies this monumental survey that includes contributions from leading international film scholars and comprehensively analyzes Renoir's life and career from numerous critical perspectives. New and original research by the world's leading English and French language Renoir scholars explores stylistic, cultural and ideological aspects of Renoir's films as well as key biographical periods Thematic structure admits a range of critical methodologies, from textual analy 410 0$aWiley-Blackwell companions to film directors ;$v7. 606 $aLiterary criticism 615 0$aLiterary criticism. 676 $a791.4309 701 $aPhillips$b Alastair$f1963-$0800851 701 $aVincendeau$b Ginette$f1948-$0861540 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910138860603321 996 $aA companion to Jean Renoir$91922634 997 $aUNINA