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
