The Films of Eric Rohmer: French New Wave to Old Master

Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.

André Aciman, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Dudley Andrew, Yale University, USA Antoine de Baecque, l'Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, France Jerry W. Carlson, City College, CUNY, USA Mark Cohen, St. Johns University, USA Nathalie Fouyer, Queen's College, CUNY, USA Tom Gunning, University of Chicago, USA Fiona Handyside, University of Exeter, UK Mary Harrod, King's College London, UK Noël Herpe, l'Université de Paris 8, France Aimée Israel-Pelletier, University of Texas at Arlington,USA T. Jefferson Kline, Boston University, USA Pierre Lethier, Buckingham University and London Film School, UK Ivone Margulies, Hunter College, CUNY, USA Derek Schilling, Johns Hopkins University, USA Keith Tester, University of Hull, UK Matthew Thorpe, University of Kent, UK Timothy E. Wilson, CUNY Graduate Center, USA.