Overview
- The only book specifically focussed on Jean Renoir’s silent films
- Develops a philosophical account of issues in the interpretation of early film
- Re-interprets the early work of a major film director
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works such as Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, La Bête humaine and La Règle du jeu. However, the great director’s early work from the 1920s remains almost completely unknown, even to film specialists. If it is discussed at all, it is often seen to be of interest only insofar as it anticipates themes and techniques perfected in the later masterpieces. Renoir’s films of the 1920s were sometimes unfinished, commercially unsuccessful, or unreleased at the time of their production. This book argues that to regard them merely as prefigurations of later achievements entails a failure to view them on their own terms, as searching, unsettled experiments in the meaning and potentialof film art.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Silent Renoir
Book Subtitle: Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film
Authors: Colin Davis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63027-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63026-3Published: 18 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63029-4Published: 19 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63027-0Published: 17 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 142
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film History, Screen Studies, European Cinema and TV