Alain Resnais

Author:   Emma Wilson
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9780719064067


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 February 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais' films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond. Yet it also offers a highly personal and detailed engagement with individual images and scenes in Resnais' films. A passionate and partial defence of Resnais' work, old and new, this volume stands apart in its attention to the more tangible and moving pleasures of his films, their pathos, rigour and visual beauty. -- .

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Author:   Emma Wilson
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780719064067


ISBN 10:   0719064066
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 February 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Documentaries 1948-1958; 2. Hiroshima mon amour (1959); 3. L'Annee derniere a Marienbad (1961); 4. Muriel ou le temps d'un retour (1963); 5. La Guerre est finie (1966), Je t'aime je t'aime (1968), Stavisky (1974); 6. Providence (1977); 7. Mon oncle d'Amerique (1980), La vie est un roman (1983), L'Amour a mort (1984), Melo (1986), I Want to Go Home (1989); 8. Smoking/No Smoking (1993), On Connait la chanson (1997), Pas sur la bouche (2003); Filmography; Select Bibliography.

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Emma Wilson is Reader in Contemporary French Literature and Film at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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