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The Cinema of Louis Malle : Transatlantic Auteur / ed. by Philippe Met.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Directors' CutsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 16 b&wContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231188715
  • 9780231851268
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33/092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.M34 C56 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Transversal Studies -- 1. Malle Before Malle -- 2. The Art of Silence: From Documentary to Fiction -- 3. No Comment: Direct Cinema in Humain, trop humain and Place de la République -- 4. Louis Malle's Nonfiction: Tradition, Rebellion and Authorial Voice -- 5. Louis Malle's 1960s 'Star' Films -- 6. Experimentation and Automatism in Zazie dans le métro and Black Moon -- 7. Louis Malle and 'His' Writers (Drieu La Rochelle, Nimier, Modiano) -- 8. A Gendered Geography of Death: Louis Malle's Orphic Voyage -- 9. The Figure of the Mother in May Fools, Au revoir les enfants and Murmur of the Heart -- 10. Jazz as Counterpoint in Elevator to the Gallows, Murmur of the Heart and Pretty Baby -- Monographic Essays -- 11. The Fire Within: Touching -- 12. Le Voleur: (Self-)Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Thief -- 13. Absorption and Reflexivity in Phantom India -- 14. Fog of War: Lacombe Lucien and Its Afterlives -- 15. Memory, Friendship and History in Au revoir les enfants -- 16. Atlantic City: When Sound Meets Utopia -- 17. Between Conversation and Conversion: My Dinner with André -- 18. Vanya on 42nd Street: Inventing a Space of Creation -- Interview -- Truth and Poetry: An Interview with John Guare (New York, 7 October 2015) -- Varia (Previously Unpublished Material) -- Notes for a Lecture to be Given by Louis Malle on the Queen Elizabeth 2 -- Script of 'The Loner' by Louis Malle -- Afterword -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 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 Schlöndorff and an afterword by Wes Anderson, two renowned filmmakers who articulate their admiration for, and the seminal influence of, their predecessor.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Transversal Studies -- 1. Malle Before Malle -- 2. The Art of Silence: From Documentary to Fiction -- 3. No Comment: Direct Cinema in Humain, trop humain and Place de la République -- 4. Louis Malle's Nonfiction: Tradition, Rebellion and Authorial Voice -- 5. Louis Malle's 1960s 'Star' Films -- 6. Experimentation and Automatism in Zazie dans le métro and Black Moon -- 7. Louis Malle and 'His' Writers (Drieu La Rochelle, Nimier, Modiano) -- 8. A Gendered Geography of Death: Louis Malle's Orphic Voyage -- 9. The Figure of the Mother in May Fools, Au revoir les enfants and Murmur of the Heart -- 10. Jazz as Counterpoint in Elevator to the Gallows, Murmur of the Heart and Pretty Baby -- Monographic Essays -- 11. The Fire Within: Touching -- 12. Le Voleur: (Self-)Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Thief -- 13. Absorption and Reflexivity in Phantom India -- 14. Fog of War: Lacombe Lucien and Its Afterlives -- 15. Memory, Friendship and History in Au revoir les enfants -- 16. Atlantic City: When Sound Meets Utopia -- 17. Between Conversation and Conversion: My Dinner with André -- 18. Vanya on 42nd Street: Inventing a Space of Creation -- Interview -- Truth and Poetry: An Interview with John Guare (New York, 7 October 2015) -- Varia (Previously Unpublished Material) -- Notes for a Lecture to be Given by Louis Malle on the Queen Elizabeth 2 -- Script of 'The Loner' by Louis Malle -- Afterword -- Filmography -- Index

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Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 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 Schlöndorff and an afterword by Wes Anderson, two renowned filmmakers who articulate their admiration for, and the seminal influence of, their predecessor.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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