The Films of Eric Rohmer French New Wave to Old Master [Paperback]

Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.Introduction; Leah Anderst 1. Evening with Rohmer; Andr? Aciman PART I: ROHMER: CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER 2. Eric Rohmer and the Legacy of Cinematic Realism; Tom Gunning 3. Practicing What He Preaches? Continuities and Discontinuities in Rohmer's Early Film Criticism and his Conte d'automne ; T. Jefferson Kline 4. Ma Nuit chez Maud and the Moral Imagination: Rhymes, Symmetries, and Variations on an Ethical Theme; Matthew Thorpe PART II: NARRATION, FRAMES, GENRES 5. The Fall into Words: From Contes des quatre saisons to L'Anglaise et le duc ; No?l Herpe and translated by Timothy E. Wilson 6. Eric Rohmer's Magnetic Fluid; Dudley Andrew 7. Imagination and Grace: Rohmer's Contes des quatre saisons ; Keith Tester 8. Auteur Meets Genre: Rohmer and the Rom-Com; Mary Harrod PART III: POLITICS, GENDER, AND CLASS 9. Rohmer/Politics: From Royalism to Ecology; Antoine de Baecque and translated by Nathalie Fouyer 10. On the Class Character of Desire: Romantic Heroics in the Contes moraux ; Derek Schilling 11. Rohmer's Realism: Women on the Border of What Is and What Might Be; Aim?e Israel-Pelletier PART IV: ARCHITECTURE, PLACES, AND SPACE 12. The Changing Landscape and Rohmer's Temptation of Architecture; Ivone Margulies 13. Walking in the City: Paris in the Films of Eric Rohmer; Fiona Handyside 14. Rohmer's Poetics of Placelessness; Leah Anderst PART V: ADAPTING HISTORY AND LITERATURE 15. Eric Rohmer, Historiographer; Jerry W. Carlson 16. Eric Rohmer's Talking Heads: Listening to the Classical Text in La Bruy?re ; Mark Cohen 17. Triple Agent : Eric Rohmer and the Tumult of the Inter-war Years; Pierre Lethier

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