Screening the Text - Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema

Informationen zum Autor T. Jefferson Kline is a professor of French at Boston University. Klappentext Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels. But the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature. With subversive techniques that exploded traditional methods of film narrative, they embraced fragmentation and alienation. Their cinema would be literature's rival, not its apprentice. In"

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• Authors: Jefferson T. Kline, T. Jefferson Kline, T. Jefferson (Boston University) Kline
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2003
• EAN: 9780801874314
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7431-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1950 to c 1959, Film Theory & Criticism, C 1945 To C 1960, Film history, theory or criticism