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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University Klappentext Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystère Picasso). Clouzot's films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment. Zusammenfassung Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker! no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement! situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society! and providing detailed analysis of his major films. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Clouzot and the cinema2. Occupation and its discontents3. Reconstruction and retribution: Clouzot's post-war films4. Beyond genre: Le Salaire de la peur5. Suspense and surveillance: Les Diaboliques and Les Espions6. Filming Picasso and Karajan7. The final filmsConclusionFilmography
