Description
Book SynopsisA complete survey – the first in English – of Jacques Rivette’s sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day.
Trade ReviewThis book makes a strong case for explaining what is specific, innovative and exciting about Rivette's films, focusing on his exploration of form and the relationship of artist to audience.
Smith and Morrey offer a vital defence of some of Rivette's more maligned films.
This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and a thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject.
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Table of ContentsList of plates
Series editors’ foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 The art of the present and the dialectics of duration: The film criticism of Jacques Rivette
3 In the labyrinth: Narrative, conspiracy, community
4 Story as space: Space as story
5 Family secrets
6 La Règle du jeu: Games and play
7 Play, theatre and performance
8 Adaptation
9 Pushing the envelope: Bodies, love and jealousy
10 Out of time: The unconsoled in Rivette’s late works
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Filmography
Index
