French film, texts and contexts /  
edited by Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  1990. 
 - ix, 309 pages :   illustrations ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-304) and index. 
<br/><br/>'Poetry of the unconscious' : circuits of desire in two films by Germaine Dulac : La Souriante Mme Beudet (1923) and La Coquille et le clergyman (1927) / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis<br/>History and actuality : Abel Gance's Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) / Norman King<br/>Discourse, narrative, and the subject of capital : Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1929) / Richard Abel<br/>'Let's sing it one more time' : René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930) / Michel Marie<br/>In the name of the father : Marcel Pagnol's 'trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) / Ginette Vincendeau<br/>The fleeing gaze : Jean Renoir's La Betê humaine (1938) / Michel Lagny<br/>Poetic realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation : Marcel Carné's Le Jour se lève (1939) / Maureen Turim. Beneath the despair, the show goes on : Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-1945) / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas<br/>Gender politics : Cocteau's Belle is not that Bête : Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) / Susan Hayward<br/>The sacrament of writing : Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / Keith A. Reader<br/>A breath of sea air : Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1952) / Pierre Sorlin<br/>Casque d'or casquettes, a cask of aging wine : Jacques Becker's Casque d' or (1952) Dudley Andrew<br/>How history begets meaning : Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959) / Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier<br/>The script of delinquency : François Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959) / Anne Gillain<br/>'It really makes you sick!' : Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1959) / Michel Marie<br/>The fall of the gods : Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963) / Jacques Aumont. Eye for irony : Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) / Norman King<br/>'Liberté! egalité! paternité! : Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 / Claire Pajaczkowska<br/>Therapeutic realism : Maurice Pailat's A nos amours (1983) / Ginette Vincendeau<br/>Representing the sexual impasse : Eric Rohmer's Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) / Berenice Reynaud<br/>Beyond the gaze and into femme- filmécriture : Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985) / Susan Hayward 
<br/><br/> Analyses key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and ideas of national history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415001315 (pbk.) 9780415001311 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89006038  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--History.--France<br/>Cine--Historia--Francia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1993.5  / F873 1990 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/0944