French Film

Notes on contributors = ⅵ Introduction: SUSAN HAYWARD and GINETTE VINCENDEAU = 1 1. '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 = 7 2. History and actuality: Abel Gance's Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) / NORMAN KING = 25 3. Discourse, narrative, and the subject of capital: Marcel L'Heibier's L'Argent (1929) / RICHARD ABEL = 37 4. 'Let's sing it one more time': René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930) / MICHEL MARIE = 51 5. In the name of the father: Marcel Pagnol's 'trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) / GINETTE VINCENDEAU = 67 6. The fleeing gaze: Jean Renoir's La Bête humaine (1938) / MICHEL LAGNY = 83 7. Poetic Realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation: Marcel Carné's Le Jour se lève (1939) / MAUREEN TURIM = 103 8. Beneath the despair, the show goes on: Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-1945) / JEAN-PIERRE JEANCOLAS = 117 9. Gender politics — Cocteau's Belle is not that Bête: Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) / SUSAN HAYWARD = 127 10. The sacrament of writing: Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / KEITH A. READER = 137 11. A breath of sea air: Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1952) / PIERRE SORLIN = 147 12. Casque d'or, casquettes, a cask of aging wine: Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1952) / DUDLEY ANDREW = 157 13. How history begets meaning: Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959) / MARIE-CLAIRE ROPARS-WUILLEUMIER = 173 14. The script of delinquency: François Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959) / ANNE GILLAIN = 187 15. 'It really makes you sick!': Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1959) / MICHEL MARIE = 201 16. The fall of the gods: Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963) / JACQUES AUMONT = 217 17. Eye for Irony: Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) / NORMAN KING = 231 18. 'Liberté! Egalité! Paternité!': Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) / CLAIRE PAJACZKOWSKA = 241 19. Therapeutic realism: Maurice Pialat's A nos amours (1983) / GINETTE VINCENDEAU = 257 20. Representing the sexual impasse: Eric Rohmer's Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) / BERENICE REYNAUD = 269 21. Beyond the gaze and into femme-filmécriture: Agnés Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985) / SUSAN HAYWARD = 285 Selected bibliography on French cinema = 297 Index = 305

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