Francois Truffaut

Informationen zum Autor Anne Gillain is Professor Emerita at Wellesley College and is known for her work in French cinema, particularly the films of François Truffaut. She is author of Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut and The 400 Blows .Alistair Fox is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago. He is author of Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (IUP, 2011). Klappentext In a series of brilliant, nuanced readings of each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary memories arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession of motifs that are repeated from film to film, but govern every aspect of his mise en scène and cinematic technique. Zusammenfassung Considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface to the English Edition of François Truffaut: The Lost Secret. Anne Gillain Emotion and the Authorial Fantasmatic: An Introduction to Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost Secret. Alistair Fox Preface to the Original French Edition. One Secret Can Hide Another. Jean Gruault Introduction: The Secret of the Art 1. Family Secrets: The 400 Blows (1959), The Woman Next Door (1981) 2. Deceptions: Shoot the Piano Player (1960), The Soft Skin (1964) 3. Queen-Women: Jules and Jim (1962), The Last Metro (1980) 4. Sentimental Educations: Stolen Kisses (1968), Two English Girls (1971) 5. Criminal Women: The Bride Wore Black (1967), A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972) 6. In Search of the Father: Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Day for Night (1973) 7. Marriages: Mississippi Mermaid (1969), Bed and Board (1970) 8. Words and Things: The Wild Child (1970), The Story of Adèle H. (1975) 9. The Child King: Small Change (1976), Love on the Run (1979) 10. Fetishism and Mourning: The Man Who Loved Women (1977), The Green Room (1978) 11. The Role of Play: Confidentially Yours (1983) Conclusion: The Art of the Secret Filmography Bibliography Index ...

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In a series of brilliant, nuanced readings of each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary memories arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession of motifs that are repeated from film to film, but govern every aspect of his mise en scène and cinematic technique.

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Considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films

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Acknowledgements
Preface to the English Edition of François Truffaut: The Lost Secret. Anne Gillain
Emotion and the Authorial Fantasmatic: An Introduction to Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost Secret. Alistair Fox
Preface to the Original French Edition. One Secret Can Hide Another. Jean Gruault
Introduction: The Secret of the Art

1. Family Secrets: The 400 Blows (1959), The Woman Next Door (1981)
2. Deceptions: Shoot the Piano Player (1960), The Soft Skin (1964)
3. Queen-Women: Jules and Jim (1962), The Last Metro (1980)
4. Sentimental Educations: Stolen Kisses (1968), Two English Girls (1971)
5. Criminal Women: The Bride Wore Black (1967), A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)
6. In Search of the Father: Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Day for Night (1973)
7. Marriages: Mississippi Mermaid (1969), Bed and Board (1970)
8. Words and Things: The Wild Child (1970), The Story of Adèle H. (1975)
9. The Child King: Small Change (1976), Love on the Run (1979)
10. Fetishism and Mourning: The Man Who Loved Women (1977), The Green Room (1978)
11. The Role of Play: Confidentially Yours (1983)
    Conclusion: The Art of the Secret
    Filmography
    Bibliography
    Index