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OverviewBertrand Tavernier (b. 1941) is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he has directed twenty-two feature films in an eclectic range of genres, from intimate family portrait to historical drama and neo-Western. Beginning with his debut feature--L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974), which won the prestigious Louis Delluc prize--Tavernier has shown himself to be a public intellectual. Like his films, he is deeply engaged with the pressing issues facing France and the world: the consequences of war, colonialism and its continuing aftermath, the price of heroism, and the power of art. A voracious cinephile, he is immensely knowledgeable about world cinema and American film in particular. Tavernier's roots are in Lyon, the birthplace of the cinema. He founded and presides over the Institut Lumière, which hosts retrospectives and an annual film festival in the factory where the Lumière brothers made the first films. In this collection, containing numerous interviews translated from French and available in English for the first time, he discusses the arc of his career following in the lineage of the Lumière brothers, in that his goal, like theirs, is to """"show the world to the world."""" It is no surprise, then, that an interview with Tavernier is a treat. Beginning with discussions of his own films, the interviews in this volume cover a vast range of topics. At the core are his thoughts about the ways cinema can inspire the imagination and contribute to the broadest possible public conversation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynn A.Higgins , T. Jefferson KlinePublisher: University Press of Mississippi Imprint: University Press of Mississippi Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781496807687ISBN 10: 1496807685 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 23 September 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLynn A. Higgins, Hanover, New Hampshire, is the Edward Tuck Professor of French Studies at Dartmouth College, USA, where she also teaches film studies, comparative literature, and gender studies. Her books include New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France and Bertrand Tavernier. T. Jefferson Kline, Brookline, Massachusetts, is professor of French at Boston University, USA. He is the author of several books, including Unraveling French Cinema: From L'Atalante to Caché, and he is editor of Agnès Varda: Interviews and coeditor of Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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