Taste for Beauty

Klappentext A collection of essays by the film-maker and critic Eric Rohmer written between 1948 1979. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of essays by the film-maker and critic Eric Rohmer which were originally written for the French film review Cahiers du Cinema between 1948–1979. Rohmer writes in depth on the issues most fundamental to film and also includes a personal defence of his films. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to French Edition; 1. The Critical Years - Interview with Eric Rohmer Jean Narboni; Part I. The Classical Age of Cinema Cinema: 2. The art of space; 3. For a talking cinema; 4. The romance is gone; 5. Reflections on color; 6. The classical age of cinema; 7. Such vanity is painting; 8. Isou or Things As They Are?; Of three films and of a certain school Of taste and colors; The taste for Beauty Letter to a critic - Concerning my moral tales; 9. Film and the three levels of discourse?; Part II. For an unpure cinema Andre Bazin's 'Summa': 10. Lesson of a failure - Moby Dick John Houston; 11. Explanation of a vet - South Pacific Joshua Logan Faith and mountains - Les Etoiles de Midi Marchel Ichac; 12. The photogenics of sport; Alfred Hitchcock: 13. Vertigo IV. Jean Renoir; 14. The American Renoir Elena and Her Man (Venus and the Apes); 15. Renoir's youth; 16. The Little Theater of Jean Renoir; 17. Filmgraphy of Rohmer films; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Rohmer
• Assisted by: Jean Narboni (Editor), Carol Volk (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.1990
• EAN: 9780521385923
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38592-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet