Silent Renoir
Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film
Authors: Davis, Colin
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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 potential of film art.
- About the authors
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Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction: Renoir Goes to the Cinema
Pages 1-13
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But Is It Art?: Heidegger, (Moving) Images and the Interpretation of Early Film
Pages 15-32
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Philosophy and Film (Again): From Ontology to Hermeneutics
Pages 33-52
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Reading and Overreading Film
Pages 53-67
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The Woman Who Wasn’t There: Catherine Hessling
Pages 69-84
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Silent Renoir
- Book Subtitle
- Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film
- Authors
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- Colin Davis
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-63027-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-63027-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-63026-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 142
- Number of Illustrations
- 20 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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