The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video art, gal…
"In this study of the impact and influence of the New Wave in French cinema, Douglas Morrey looks at both the subsequent careers of New Wave filmmakers and the work of later film directors and film movements in France. This book is organized around a series of key moments from t…
"In this study of the impact and influence of the New Wave in French cinema, Douglas Morrey looks at both the subsequent careers of New Wave filmmakers and the work of later film directors and film movements in France. This book is organized around a series of key moments from t…
"In this study of the impact and influence of the New Wave in French cinema, Douglas Morrey looks at both the subsequent careers of New Wave filmmakers and the work of later film directors and film movements in France. This book is organized around a series of key moments from t…
Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema. Starting with his decisively influential film criticism of the 1950s, this title moves from the "New Wave" through the complex, experimental films of the 1970s to the challenging, playful dramas which ensured his …
'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 cinéma team, he developed into one of the most unusual and adventurous French directors of the last sixty years, yet his work remains little-…
"Smith and Morrey take 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 n…