Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) : From 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' /
In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for 'Cahiers du Cinema' launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is frequently usually viewed as limited and a bit old-fashioned, a closer inspection of the hund...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Novelistic Art of Space; 1.1. Sartre's ontology; 1.2. A novelistic ontology?; 1.3. Cinema: Novelistic consciousness qua actual nothingness; 1.4. An art of space; 1.5. An art of appearance for appearance's sake; 1.6. Space vs. language; 1.7. An art more novelistic than the novel itself; 2. Alexandre Astruc: An Early but Decisive Influence; 2.1. Kant's transcendental aesthetics
- and Heidegger's reinterpretation; 2.2. 'Dialectique et cinema'; 2.3. From and beyond Sartre's Heideggerian perspective; 2.4. The 'Camera-Stylo'
- 3. Under and On the Volcano: Rohmer's Conversion3.1. The Other; 3.2. The triumph of exteriority over interiority; 3.3. Pulling phenomenology back to its Kantian roots; 3.4. Ethics; 3.5. God?; 3.6. Echoes of the conversion; 4. The Art of Nature; 4.1. To show and not to tell; 4.2. Natural beauty; 4.3. Immediate mediation; 4.4. Movement and narrative; 4.5. Mechanism as the background for freedom; 5. Ethics at the Heart of Aesthetics; 5.1. On abjection: The Wages of Fear; 5.2. Films with a soul; 5.3. Tragedy; 5.4. Solitude morale.
- 5.5. The vertiginous moment: The reversal between inside and outside6. After Modernity: Rohmer's Classicism and Universalism; 6.1. Beyond modern art; 6.2. Classic = Modern; 6.3. An anti-evolutionist approach; 6.4. Universalism; 6.5. Authorship and mise en scene; Conclusion; About the Author; Index of Names.