Silent Renoir : philosophy and the interpretation of early film / Colin Davis.
Davis, Colin, 1960- author.
2021
PN1998.3.R46 D38 2021
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Title Silent Renoir : philosophy and the interpretation of early film / Colin Davis.
Author Davis, Colin, 1960- author.
ISBN 3030630277 (electronic book)
9783030630270 (electronic bk.)
9783030630263 (hardcover)
3030630269
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63027-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) : illustrations (colour)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-63027-0 doi
Call Number PN1998.3.R46 D38 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.430233092
Summary Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works such as Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, La Bete humaine and La Regle du jeu. However, the great directors early work from the 1920s remains almost completely unknown, even to film specialists. If it is discussed at all, it is often seen to be of interest only insofar as it anticipates themes and techniques perfected in the later masterpieces. Renoirs films of the 1920s were sometimes unfinished, commercially unsuccessful, or unreleased at the time of their production. This book argues that to regard them merely as prefigurations of later achievements entails a failure to view them on their own terms, as searching, unsettled experiments in the meaning and potential of film art.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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