The Films of Eric Rohmer French New Wave to Old Master

by Anderst, Leah

• ISBN13: 9781137010995
• ISBN10: 1137010991
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-03-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. His death in 2010 sparked renewed interest in his diverse body of works that span films, criticism, and television work. Contributors to this volume - a mix of well-known and younger scholars of cinema - visit, revisit, complicate, and at times upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.

Author Biography

Leah Anderst is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Leah Anderst
1. Evening with Rohmer; André Aciman
PART I: ROHMER: CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER
2. Eric Rohmer and the Legacy of Cinematic Realism; Tom Gunning
3. Practicing What He Preaches? Continuities and Discontinuities in Rohmer's Early Film Criticism and his Conte d'automne; T. Jefferson Klein
4. Ma Nuit chez Maud and the Moral Imagination: Rhymes, Symmetries, and Variations on an Ethical Theme; Matthew Thorpe
PART II: NARRATION, FRAMES, GENRES
5. The Fall into Words: From Contes des quatre saisons to L'Anglaise et le duc; Noël Herpe and translated by Timothy E. Wilson
6. Eric Rohmer's Magnetic Fluid; Dudley Andrew
7. Imagination and Grace: Rohmer's Contes des quatre saisons; Keith Tester
8. Auteur Meets Genre: Rohmer and the Rom-Com; Mary Harrod
PART III: POLITICS, GENDER, AND CLASS
9. Rohmer/Politics: From Royalism to Ecology; Antoine de Baecque and translated by Nathalie Fouyer
10. On the Class Character of Desire: Romantic Heroics in the Contes moraux; Derek Schilling
11. Rohmer's Realism: Women on the Border of What Is and What Might Be; Aimée Israel-Pelletier
PART IV: ARCHITECTURE, PLACES, AND SPACE
12. The Changing Landscape and Rohmer's Temptation of Architecture; Ivone Margulies
13. Walking in the City: Paris in the Films of Eric Rohmer; Fiona Handyside
14. Rohmer's Poetics of Placelessness; Leah Anderst
PART V: ADAPTING HISTORY AND LITERATURE
15. Eric Rohmer, Historiographer; Jerry W. Carlson
16. Eric Rohmer's Talking Heads: Listening to the Classical Text in La Bruyère; Mark Cohen
17. Triple Agent: Eric Rohmer and the Tumult of the Inter-war Years; Pierre Lethier