Unraveling French Cinema в„—ВЎprovides a much needed introduction to the complexities of French film forв„—ВЎstudents, cineastes, and the movie-loving public.:. Looks at the differences between French and American national cinema;. Explores how French directors shape their films around two potentially divergent goals: the narration of a story and an elaboration of some theory about film itself.;. Demystifies the "difficulty" of French cinema, allowing the American movie-goer to enjoy films that are too often perplexing at a first viewing.;. Offers extended analyses of classic, New Wave, and contempora.     Read more...      Cinema and/as poetry: L'Atalante's apples as poems -- Cinema and the real: Renoir's rules -- Cinema and/as crime: Breaking the law in The children of paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless -- Cinema and/as mapping: reorienting ourselves through film -- Film and/as dream: Truffaut's "royal road" to Adele H. -- Cinema and/as hypnosis: Jacquot's Seventh heaven -- Cinema and/as mourning: Anne Fontaine's How I killed my father -- Cinema and/as terror: Michael Haneke's Cache -- Beautiful fragments: discontinuity and the French cinema

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