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Renoir and Murder
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 48, Number 2, Winter 2009
- pp. 26-48
- 10.1353/cj.0.0078
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay shows the paradoxical way that the murder scene structures the poetics of realism across Renoir's films, opening a way to reconceptualize the entrenched opposition between realism and both modernism and formalism in film theory and criticism.