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A 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 Review

This 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.

-- .

Table of Contents

List 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

Jacques Rivette

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 1/31/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719096877
      978-0719096877
      ISBN-10 0719096871
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      Film scripts and screenplays

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A 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 Review

      This 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.

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      List 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

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