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This book makes a strong case for explaining what is specific, innovative and exciting about Rivette's films, focusing on his exploration of form and the relationship of artist to audience. Smith and Morrey offer a vital defence of some of Rivette's more maligned films. This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and a thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject. -- .

This book makes a strong case for explaining what is specific, innovative and exciting about Rivette's films, focusing on his exploration of form and the relationship of artist to audience. Smith and Morrey offer a vital defence of some of Rivette's more maligned films. This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and a thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject. -- Jonathan L.Owen. An Online Journal of Film and Television

This book makes a strong case for explaining what is specific, innovative and exciting about Rivette's films, focusing on his exploration of form and the relationship of artist to audience. Smith and Morrey offer a vital defence of some of Rivette's more maligned films. This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and a thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject. -- .

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Douglas Morrey is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies in the University of Warwick. Alison Smith is Lecturer in European Film Studies at the University of Liverpool

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