The Cinema of Louis Malle (eBook)

Transatlantic Auteur

Philippe Met (Herausgeber)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-85126-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A pioneer of the French New Wave, Louis Malle went on to an acclaimed transatlantic career. This collection of essays reassesses his eclectic and subversive oeuvre to redress the critical neglect it has suffered. The volume features contributions from playwright John Guare and filmmakers Volker Schlöndorff and Wes Anderson.

MetPhilippe: Philippe Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he also chairs the Department of French and Francophone Studies. He is the co-author of Les Aventures de Harry Dickson: scénario de Frédéric de Towarnicki, pour un film (non réalisé) par Alain Resnais (Capricci, 2007). He is Editor-in-Chief of French Forum and co-editor of the Film Cultures series for Peter Lang.Philippe Met is professor of French and cinema studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored and edited several books on literature or film, and is the coeditor of Screening the Paris Suburbs: From the Silent Era to the 1990s (2017).

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Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and boldly subversive oeuvre and redress the surprising critical neglect it has suffered over the years. It does so through a combination of transversal and monographic analyses that use a variety of critical lenses and theoretical tools in order to examine Malle's documentaries as well as his fiction features (and, more importantly, the constant shuttling and uniquely persistent cross-pollination between those two cinematic approaches), illuminate the profound, lasting dialogue his films entertained with literature and theater, bring to the fore their sustained, albeit often oblique autobiographical thrust along with their scathing sociopolitical critique, and scrutinize the alternating use of stars and non-professional actors.In addition, the volume features an exclusive interview with the acclaimed playwright John Guare (a close friend and collaborator of Louis Malle's who scripted Atlantic City) and is bookended by a foreword by Volker Schlondorff and an afterword by Wes Anderson, two renowned filmmakers who articulate their admiration for, and the seminal influence of, their predecessor.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsForeword, by Volker SchlöndorffIntroduction, by Philippe MetTransversal Studies1. Malle Before Malle, by Guillaume Soulez2. The Art of Silence: From Documentary to Fiction, by Caroline Eades3. No Comment: Direct Cinema in Humain, trop humain and Place de la République, by Derek Schilling4. Louis Malle’s Nonfiction: Tradition, Rebellion and Authorial Voice, by Alan Williams5. Louis Malle’s 1960s ‘Star’ Films, by Sue Harris6. Experimentation and Automation in Zazie dans le métro and Black Moon, by Ian Fleishman7. Louis Malle and ‘His’ Writers (Drieu La Rochelle, Nimier, Modiano) , by Michel Ciment8. A Gendered Geography of Death: Louis Malle’s Orphic Voyage, by T. Jefferson Kline9. The Figure of the Mother in May Fools, Au revoir les enfants and Murmur of the Heart, by Justine Malle10. Jazz as Counterpoint in Elevator to the Gallows, Murmur of the Heart and Pretty Baby, by Jean-Louis PautrotMonographic Essays11. The Fire Within: Touching, by Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck12. Le Voleur: (Self-)Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Thief, by Philippe Met13. Absorbtion and Reflectivity in Phantom India, by Ludovic Cortade14. Fog of War: Lacombe Lucien and Its Afterlives, by Steven Ungar15. Memory, Friendship and History in Au revoir les enfants, by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis16. Atlantic City: When Sound Meets Utopia, by Francesca Cinelli17. Between Conversation and Conversion: My Dinner with André, by Tom Conley18. Vanya on 42nd Street: Inventing a Space of Creation, by Sébastien RongierInterviewTruth and Poetry: An Interview with John Guare, by Philippe MetVaria (previously unpublished material)Notes for a Lecture on the Queen Elizabeth 2, by Louis Malle‘The Loner’: Treatment suggested by H. James’ What Maisie Knew, by Louis Malle (with introduction by Philippe Met)Afterword, by Wes AndersonFilmographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Directors' Cuts
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b&w
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• ISBN-10: 0-231-85126-X / 023185126X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-85126-8 / 9780231851268