Phillips / Vincendeau A Companion to Jean Renoir

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32534-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

François Truffaut called him, simply, 'the best'.Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world cinema and fullyjustifies this monumental survey that includes contributions fromleading international film scholars and comprehensively analyzesRenoir's life and career from numerous criticalperspectives.
* New and original research by the world's leading Englishand French language Renoir scholars explores stylistic, culturaland ideological aspects of Renoir's films as well as keybiographical periods
* Thematic structure admits a range of critical methodologies,from textual analysis to archival research, cultural studies,gender-based and philosophical approaches
* Features detailed analysis of Renoir's essentialworks
* Provides an international perspective on this keyauteur's enduring significance in world film history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Alastair

Vincendeau, Ginette

Über Autor(innen)

Alastair Phillips is Reader in Film Studies at theUniversity of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Rififi(2009), and City of Darkness, City of Light: ÉmigréFilmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 (2004). He is co-author of 100Film Noirs (2009) and co-editor, with Ginette Vincendeau, ofJourneys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) aswell as, with Julian Stringer, of Japanese Cinema: Texts andContexts (2007).
Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies atKing's College London, UK. Among her books are Jean Gabin,Anatomie d'un mythe, with Claude Gauteur (1993, 2006),Pépé le Moko (1998), Stars and Stardom inFrench Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville: An American inParis (2003), and La Haine (2005). She co-editedJourneys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006) andThe New Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009).