@article{1435000,
      recid = {1435000},
      author = {Davis, Colin,},
      title = {Silent Renoir : philosophy and the interpretation of early  film /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435000},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63027-0},
}