Totally Truffaut 23 films for understanding the man and the filmmaker / Anne Gillain ; foreword by Martin Scorsese ; foreword to the French Edition by Michel Marie ; translated by Alistair Fox ; edited by Barry Lydgate.
| Author/creator | Gillain, Anne |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xxii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Scorsese, Martin. |
| Other author/creator | Marie, Michel. |
| Other author/creator | Fox, Alistair. |
| Other author/creator | Lydgate, Barry. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Uniform title | Tout Truffaut. English |
| Abstract | "With this book, I try answering in a clear language two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate but doomed relationship with Catherine Deneuve. I focus first on the process that embeds experience into fictions, and more specifically into visual forms and patterns. I also try to define the mode of perception film language triggers in the spectator. When entering a movie theater, we expect perceptual pleasure. Truffaut's creative work is devoted to distilling this drug to audiences, an ambition central to the evolution of his style. These two issues are closely connected and Totally Truffaut follows, film after film, their crisscrossing paths. It also highlights the essential role several great actresses-Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Dorléac, Jacqueline Bisset, Isabelle Adjani, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the creation of the films"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021015019 |
| ISBN | 9780197536315 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 9780197536308 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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