In this Book
- Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953): From 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs'
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for Cahiers du Cinéma launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is frequently usually viewed as limited and a bit old-fashioned, a closer inspection of the hundreds of little-read articles by these critics reveals that the movement rested upon a much more layered and intriguing aesthetics of cinema. This book is a first step toward a serious reassessment of the mostly unspoken theoretical and aesthetic premises underlying auteur theory, built around a reconstruction of Eric Rohmer's early but decisive leadership of the group, whereby he laid down the foundations for the eventual emergence of their full-fledged auteurism.
Table of Contents
- Table of contents
- pp. 7-8
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 9-10
- Introduction
- pp. 11-36
- 1. A Novelistic Art of Space
- pp. 37-80
- 4. The Art of Nature
- pp. 149-180
- 5. Ethics at the Heart of Aesthetics
- pp. 181-250
- Conclusion
- pp. 283-296
- About the Author
- pp. 297-298
- Index of Names
- pp. 299-302
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048537037
Related ISBN(s)
9789462985803
MARC Record
OCLC
1111612510
Pages
349
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-09
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2018