Book description
The 34 essays of this collection by leading international scholars
reassess Truffaut's impact on cinema as they locate the unique quality
of his thematic obsessions and his remarkable narrative techniques.
Almost 30 years after his death, we are presented with strikingly
original perspectives on his background, influences, and importance.
Bridges a gap in film scholarship with a series of 34 original essays
by leading film scholars that assess the lasting impact of Truffaut's work
- Provides striking new readings of individual films, and new
perspectives on Truffaut's background, influences, and importance
- Offers a wide choice of critical perspectives ranging from current
reflections in film theories to articles applying methodologies that
have recently been neglected or considered controversial
- Includes international viewpoints from a range of European
countries, and from Japan, New Zealand, and Brazil
- Draws on Truffaut's archives at the BiFI (Bibliotheque du film) in Paris
- Includes an extended interview with French filmmaker Arnaud
Desplechin concerning Truffaut's shifting stature in French film
culture and his manner of thought and work as a director
Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and
Comparative Literature at Yale. He is the author or editor of nine
books, including The Major Film Theories, Popular Front Paris and
the Poetics of Culture (2005), What Cinema Is! (2010),
and Opening Bazin (2011), which won the SCMS Best Anthology
Award for 2011.
Anne Gillain is a Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. She
is known for her work on French cinema, particularly Francois
Truffaut, in books that include Le Cinéma selon François
Truffaut (1988), Les 400 Coups (1991) and François
Truffaut: The Lost Secret (2013).
