CAHIERS DU CINEMA, THE 1950s

Preface and Acknowledgments = viii Books Frequently Cited in Text = xii Introduction = 1 Part One French Cinema Introduction = 21 1 Francois Truffaut: 'The Rogues are Weary' (review of Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi) (April 1954) = 28 2 Andre Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Pierre Kast, Roger Leenhardt, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer: 'Six Characters in Search of auteurs: A Discussion about the French Cinema' (May 1957) = 31 3 Jean-Luc Godard: 'Sufficient Evidence' (review of Roger Vadim's Sait-on jamais?) (July 1957) = 47 4 Jean-Luc Godard: Les 400 Coups (February 1959) = 51 5 Fereydoun Hoveyda: 'The First Person Plural' (article on Francois Truffaut's Les 400 Coups) July 1959) = 53 6 Jean Domarchi, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierre Kast, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer: 'Hiroshima, notre amour' (discussion on Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour) (July 1959) = 59 Part Two American Cinema Introduction = 73 I Perspectives 7 Eric Rohmer: 'Rediscovering America' (Christmas 1955) = 88 8 Jacques Rivette: 'Notes on a Revolution' (Christmas 1955) = 94 9 Andr£ Bazin: 'The Death of Humphrey Bogart' (February 1957) = 98 II Dossier - Nicholas Ray 10 Jacques Rivette: 'On Imagination' (review of The Lusty Men) (October 1953) = 104 11 Francois Truffaut: 'A Wonderful Certainty' (review of Johnny Guitar) (April 1955) = 107 12 Eric Rohmer: 'Ajax or the Cid?' (review of Rebel Without a Cause) (May 1956) = 111 13 Jean-Luc Godard: 'Nothing but Cinema' (review of Hot Blood) (February 1957) = 116 14 Jean-Luc Godard: 'Beyond the Stars' (review of Bitter Victory) Qanuary 1958) = 118 15 Charles Bitsch: Interview with Nicholas Ray (November 1958) = 120 Ⅲ Auteurs 16 Jacques Rivette: 'The Genius of Howard Hawks' (May 1953) = 126 17 Jacques Rivette: 'The Essential' (review of Otto Preminger's Angel Face) (February 1954) = 132 18 Claude Chabrol: 'Serious Things' (review of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window) (April 1955) = 136 19 Jacques Rivette: 'The Hand' (review of Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) (November 1957) = 140 20 Luc Moullet: 'Sam Fuller: In Marlowe's Footsteps' (March 1959) = 145 IV Genre 21 Claude Chabrol: 'Evolution of the Thriller' (Christmas 1955) = 158 22 Andre Bazin: 'Beauty of a Western' (review of Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie) (January 1956) = 165 23 Andre Bazin: 'An Exemplary Western' (review of Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now) (August-September 1957) = 169 Part Three Italian Cinema Introduction = 175 24 Andre Bazin: Umberto D (June 1952) = 180 25 Amedee Ayfre: 'Neo-Realism and Phenomenology' (November 1952) = 182 26 Jacques Rivette: 'Letter on Rossellini' (April 1955) = 192 27 Eric Rohmer: 'The Land of Miracles' (review of Roberto Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia) (May 1955) = 205 28 Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut, Fereydoun Hoveyda and Jacques Rivette: Interviews with Roberto Rossellini (July 1954 and April 1959) = 209 Part Four Polemics I Criticism Introduction = 221 29 Pierre Kast: 'Flattering the Fuzz: Some Remarks on Dandyism and the Practice of Cinema' (May 1951) = 227 30 Jean Domarchi: 'Knife in the Wound' (October 1956) = 235 31 Andre Bazin: 'On the politique des auteurs' (April 1957) = 248 32 Luc Moullet, Andre Bazin, Jacques Rivette: Exchanges about Kurosawa and Mizoguchi (February 1957, March 1957, March 1958) = 260 33 Alexandre Astruc: 'What is mise en seine?' (October 1959) = 266 Ⅱ Dossier - CinemaScope Introduction = 270 34 Francois Truffaut: 'A Full View' (July 1953) = 273 35 Jacques Rivette: 'The Age of metteurs en seine' (January 1954) = 275 36 Eric Rohmer: 'The Cardinal Virtues of CinemaScope' (January 1954) = 280 Appendix 1 Cahiers du Cinema Annual Best Films Listings 1955-9 = 284 Appendix 2 Guide to Cahiers du Cinema Nos 1-102, April 1951 - December 1959, in English translation = 289 Appendix 3 Cahiers du Cinima in the 1960s and 1970s = 302 Index of Names and Film Titles = 307

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