{"product_id":"unraveling-french-cinema-isbn-9781405184519","title":"Unraveling French Cinema","description":"\u003ci\u003eUnraveling French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e provides a much needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at the differences between French and American national cinema\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how French directors shape their films around two potentially divergent goals: the narration of a story and an elaboration of some theory about film itself.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemystifies the \"difficulty\" of French cinema, allowing the American movie-goer to enjoy films that are too often perplexing at a first viewing.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers extended analyses of classic, New Wave, and contemporary French films—including \u003ci\u003eL'Atalante\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdele H\u003c\/i\u003e., \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of the Game\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCache\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Cinema and\/as Poetry: L’Atalante’s Apples as Poems 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cinema and the Real: Renoir’s Rules 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Cinema and\/as Crime: Breaking the Law in The Children of Paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Cinema and\/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Cinema and\/as Dream: Truffaut’s “Royal Road” to Adele H. 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Cinema and\/as Hypnosis: Jacquot’s Seventh Heaven 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Cinema and\/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine’s How I Killed My Father 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Cinema and\/as Terror: Michael Haneke’s Caché 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \"T. Jefferson Kline's recent book is an interesting, instructive, and at times intriguing Read. . . Jean Vigo's L'Atalante is presented as an excellent example of how poetry can be achieved through cinematography.\" (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1 September 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"Cinema historians or those specialists in film studies interested in the links between film and history may find something still to be desired from these combinations, even if the analysis offered does shed quite a different light on some of the most famous films of French cinema.\" (FH, 2 June 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In Unraveling French Cinema by T. Jefferson Kline, the focus (and astoundingly detailed focus it is too) is on the complexities of this strain of cinema divided appropriately into eight sections accompanied by in-depth examinations of ten films.\" (M\/C Reviews, August 20,  2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I enjoyed this book very much and found it to be challenging, rewarding and worthwhile. Kline has an engaging prose style and clearly knows his stuff. Envy his students.\" (\u003ci\u003eJildy Sauce\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eT. Jefferson Kline\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of French at Boston University where he served as Chair of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (1979-88) and more recently received a Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching. His publications include \u003ci\u003eBertolucci's Dream Loom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI film di Bertolucci, Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and various edited works and essays on literature.  \u003ci\u003eUnraveling French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e provides a much-needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public. Kline analyzes seven cinematic arenas, each chosen to present the reader with an experience of reading a film for plot and a particular definition of what it means to make a film. Each chapter crafts a particular theory of film – as dream, hypnosis, mapping, poetry, seduction, mourning, and even terrorism – that is central to the French cinematic tradition.  \u003cp\u003eChoosing films that are well known and DVD-accessible, the volume lists series of films that can be profitably viewed through the lens of each chapter.  Kline situates François Truffaut’s well-known \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Adele H.\u003c\/i\u003e as a pivotal film throughout the book, and threads it through each chapter, with a view to building on readers' acquisition of critical thinking and viewing skills. \u003ci\u003eUnraveling French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-have guide – whether you're watching Louis Malle and Lumière classics or Cocteau and Haneke's \u003ci\u003eCaché.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\"Unravelling French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e is both a model of pedagogy and an introduction to the prismatic art of reading cinema.  It is a brilliant an enduring contribution to film studies.\" \u003ci\u003eTom Conley, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“T. Jefferson Kline provides a gentle yet intelligent introduction to what makes French cinema French.  \u003ci\u003eUnraveling French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e  offers lucid and compelling discussions about some of French film history's most significant films, such as Jean Vigo's  \u003ci\u003eL'Atalante\u003c\/i\u003e  and François Truffaut's  \u003ci\u003eAdèle H.,\u003c\/i\u003e  that will prove especially useful in the classroom.” \u003ci\u003eHilary Radner, University of Otago, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An original, bold, and exciting new look at the history of French cinema and its masterpieces. Ideal for classroom use as well as a \"must read\" for film scholars and French cultural historians.\" \u003ci\u003eRichard Golsam, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990437511397,"sku":"NP9781405184519","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405184519.jpg?v=1761787827","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/unraveling-french-cinema-isbn-9781405184519","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}