Shoot the Piano Player - Softcover

TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS (DIRECTOR); BRUNETTE, PETER (EDITOR).

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857100123 ISBN 13: 9781857100129

Publisher: Roundhouse Publishing, Oxford, 1993

Synopsis

When it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Its sudden shifts of tone and mood, its willful play with genre stereotypes, and its hilarious in-jokes clearly signaled that Jean-Luc Godard's equally innovative Breathless of the same year was not a fluke. The two films heralded the arrival of the so-called New Wave, sharing with other New Wave films an insistence on low-budget, location shooting and, above all, on cinema as the personal statement of an author. These films had a tremendous impact on all cinematic practice. Peter Brunette's introduction to this book gives us new insight into the film, based in part on revisualizing it in terms of recent postmodern and poststructuralist thinking. He argues, in effect, that Truffaut was one of the directors who paved the way for a postmodern aesthetic. The volume also contains a complete and accurate continuity script of the film (based on the authoritative, wide-screen version), a series of interviews with Truffaut (including one by Helene Laroche Davis, previously unpublished), a large number of reviews and essays, a filmography, and selected bibliography. Peter Brunette is a professor of English and film studies at George Mason University. He is the author of Roberto Rossellini and co-author of Screen/ Derrida and Film Theory.

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Peter Brunette is Professor of English and Film Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Roberto Rossellini and co-author of Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roundhouse Publishing, Oxford
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857100123
• ISBN 13: 9781857100129
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1