Unraveling French Cinema provides a much-needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public.
Unraveling French Cinema is a must-have guide - whether you\'re watching Louis Malle and Lumière classics or Cocteau and Haneke\'s Caché.. as a pivotal film throughout the book, and threads it through each chapter, with a view to building on readers\' acquisition of critical thinking and viewing skills.
Kline situates François Truffaut’s well-known The Story of Adele H.
Choosing films that are well known and DVD-accessible, the volume lists series of films that can be profitably viewed through the lens of each chapter.
Each chapter crafts a particular theory of film - as dream, hypnosis, mapping, poetry, seduction, mourning, and even terrorism - that is central to the French cinematic tradition.
Kline analyzes seven cinematic arenas, each chosen to present the reader with an experience of reading a film for plot and a particular definition of what it means to make a film.
Unraveling French Cinema provides a much-needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public
