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  • François Truffaut

    The Lost Secret

    by Anne Gillain ...
    Translated by Alistair Fox ...
    "Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain's work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker." — BooklistFor François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Totally Truffaut

    23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker

    by Anne Gillain ...
    In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and doomed relationship with ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Truffaut on Cinema

    Edited by Anne Gillain ...
    "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." — ChoiceBetween 1959 and 1984, French film director François 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, ... Read more

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  • A Companion to François Truffaut

    Edited by Dudley Andrew, Anne Gillain ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
    A Companion to François Truffaut“An unprecedented critical tribute to the director who, in France, wound up becoming the most controversial figure of the New Wave he helped found.”Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique“This exciting collection breaks through the widely held critical view that Truffaut abandoned the iconoclasm of his early work for an academicism he had ... Read more

    $235.99 CAD

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    Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

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    Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it.The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through ... Read more

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  • Éric Rohmer

    A Biography

    by Antoine de Baecque, Noël Herpe ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
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  • The Cinema of Agnès Varda

    Resistance and Eclecticism

    by Delphine Benezet ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study ... Read more

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  • French Cinema

    From Its Beginnings to the Present

    by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni ...
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  • From Plato to Lumière

    Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema

    by Andre Gaudreault ...
    Translated by Timothy Barnard ...
    With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are ... Read more

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  • A Bout De Souffle

    French Film Guide

    by Ramona Fotiade ...
    Series series Ciné-File French Film Guides
    One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de souffle (1960) has retained its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as Godard's earliest rendition of a set of thematic and stylistic motifs that would become his trademark. A Bout de souffle is now a cult film, propelled in part by the memorable coupling of its leading ... Read more

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  • Brutal Intimacy

    Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema

    by Tim Palmer ...
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    Brutal Intimacy is the first book to explore the fascinating films of contemporary France, ranging from mainstream genre spectaculars to arthouse experiments, and from wildly popular hits to films that deliberately alienate the viewer. Twenty-first-century France is a major source of international cinema—diverse and dynamic, embattled yet prosperous—a national cinema offering something for ... Read more

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  • French Cinema—A Critical Filmography

    Volume 1, 1929–1939

    by Colin Crisp ...
    This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All ... Read more

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