Truffaut on Cinema

Author:   Anne Gillain ,  Alistair Fox
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253025753


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   06 March 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Between 1959 and 1984, French film director Francois Truffaut was interviewed over three hundred times. Each interview offers critical insight into the genesis of Truffaut's films as he shares the sources of his inspiration, the choice of his themes, and the development of his screenplays. In addition, Truffaut discusses his relationships with collaborators, actors, and the circumstances surrounding the shooting of each film. These texts, originally assembled by Anne Gillain and published in French in 1988, are presented here in a montage arranged chronologically by film. This compilation includes an impressive array of reflections on cinema as an art form. Truffaut defines the aims and practices of the French New Wave, comparing their efforts to the films made by their predecessors and including comments that encompass the entire history of cinema. Truffaut on Cinema provides commentary on contemporary events, a wealth of biographical information, and Truffaut's own artistic itinerary.

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Author:   Anne Gillain ,  Alistair Fox
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780253025753


ISBN 10:   0253025753
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   06 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition (2017) Preface (1988) Acknowledgments A Note on the Translation 1. Childhood 2. The New Wave 3. The Auteur Theory 4. 1954: Une visite; 1957: Les Mistons; 1958: Histoire d'eau 5. 1959: The 400 Blows 6. 1960: Shoot the Pianist 7. 1962: Jules and Jim 8. 1962: Antoine and Colette 9. 1966: The Soft Skin 10. 1966: Fahrenheit 451 11. 1967: The Bride Wore Black 12. 1968: Stolen Kisses 13. May 1968 14. 1959-1968: Overview 1 15. 1969: Mississippi Mermaid 16. 1970: The Wild Child 17. 1970: Bed and Board 18. 1971: Two English Girls 19. 1972: A Gorgeous Girl like Me 20. 1973: Day for Night 21. 1969-1974: Overview 2 22. 1975: The Story of Adele H 23. 1976: Small Change 24. 1977: The Man Who Loved Women 25. 1978: The Green Room 26. 1979: Love on the Run 27. 1980: The Last Metro 28. 1981: The Woman Next Door 29. 1983: Confidentially Yours 30. 1975-1984: Overview 3 Sources List of Films Discussed by Truffaut Index

Reviews

No filmmaker cared more and wrote better about his work than Francois Truffaut.Each of his films provoked interviews that open uppast models, current trends, technological challenges, struggles with actors, the politics of criticism, and the quest for sublimity. Anne Gillain's inspiring introduction readies us for a vibrant, single-minded man, surprisingly timid, yet prepared to expose his values and the difficulties achieving them. Truffaut's films are even more beautiful seen in light of his reflections on them. -Dudley Andrew, author of What Cinema Is!


Ably edited by Gillain and translated by Alistair Fox, the volume gathers nearly all of Truffaut's writings on his own films, from his breakthrough with The 400 Blows in 1959 to his final film, Confidentially Yours (1983). The writings reveal a Truffaut who was as incisive and direct in assessing his own work as he was in assessing the work of other directors. -W.W. Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln * CHOICE *


Author Information

Anne Gillain is Professor Emerita at Wellesley College. She is author of François Truffaut: The Lost Secret and is editor (with Dudley Andrew) of A Companion to François Truffaut. Alistair Fox is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Otago. He is author of Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature, and Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema, and is translator of François Truffaut: The Lost Secret.

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