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Eric Rohmer - Interviews

English · Hardback

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The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) catapulted its shy academic film director, Eric Rohmer, born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer (1920-2010), into the limelight and sold over a million tickets in France, earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film, the highlight of an impressive range of work examining the sexual, romantic, and artistic mores of contemporary France, the temptations of desire, the small joys of everyday life, and sometimes, the vicissitudes of history and politics. Yet Rohmer, who became one of the most significant forces in French New Wave film, was almost fifty years old when Maud was released and had already enjoyed a career as the editor of Cahiers du Cinéma. The interviews in this book offer a range of insights into the theoretical, critical, and practical circumstances of Rohmer's remarkably coherent body of films. They also allow Rohmer to act as his own critic, providing an array of readings concerning his interest in setting, season, color, and narrative.

Alongside the application of a theoretical rigor to his own films, Rohmer's interviews also discuss directors as varied as Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, and Alfred Hitchcock, and the relations of film to painting, architecture, and music. This book reproduces little-known interviews alongside detailed discussions from Cahiers and Positif, many produced in English here for the first time.

Fiona Handyside, Exeter, United Kingdom, is lecturer in European film studies at University of Exeter. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Studies in French Cinema, Film/ Literature Quarterly, and French Cultural Studies.

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Fiona Handyside is lecturer in European film studies at University of Exeter. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Studies in French Cinema, Film/Literature Quarterly, and French Cultural Studies.

Summary

The interviews in this book offer a range of insights into the theoretical, critical, and practical circumstances of Eric Rohmer's remarkably coherent body of films, but also allow Rohmer to act as his own critic, providing us with an array of readings concerning his interest in setting, season, colour, and narrative.

Product details

Authors Fiona Handyside, Fiona (EDT) Handyside, Aeric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer
Assisted by Fiona Handyside (Editor)
Publisher University press of mississipp
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.02.2013
 
EAN 9781617036880
ISBN 978-1-61703-688-0
No. of pages 224
Series Conversations with Filmmakers
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

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