A complete survey - the first in English - of Jacques Rivette's sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day. Series Editor(s): Holmes, Diana; Ingram, Robert. Series: French Film Directors. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404. . 2010. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Jacques Rivette (French Film Directors Series)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0719074843
ISBN 13: 9780719074844
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema. A founding figure in the New Wave, and at the centre of the Cahiers du cin�ma team, he developed into one of the most unusual and adventurous French directors of the last sixty years, yet his work remains little-known in comparison with his contemporaries, and this study is the first in English to look at the full span of his career. Starting with his decisively influential film criticism of the 1950s, it moves from the New Wave through the complex, experimental films of the 1970s to the challenging, playful dramas which ensured his visibility during the following two decades, and ends in the present, including Rivette’s most recent films, Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003) and Ne touchez pas la hache (2007).

The book takes a thematic approach, offering detailed discussion of key elements of Rivette’s film world, including games, conspiracy and jealousy, as well as a study of what Rivette’s cinema adds to our understanding of key theoretical concepts in Film Studies such as narrative, space and adaptation. There are many close analyses of sequences from Rivette’s films including Paris nous appartient (1961), C�line et Julie vont en bateau (1974) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).

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Douglas Morrey is Lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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