BackJacques Rivette and French New Wave Cinema
Interviews, Conversations, Chronologies (book in English)
- Type
- Interviews
- Subject
- Director > Jacques Rivette
- Jacques Rivette, interviews
- Publishing Date
- 2023 (April 01, 2023)
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 272 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-7897-6186-3
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Book Presentation:
This first comprehensive English collection of the interviews of Jacques Rivette (19282016) documents his career through chronology, filmography, bibliography, and image stills. A comprehensive introduction places this work in the wider context of twentieth-century social change. Rivettes films, like many of the works of the French New Wave, seem to have avoided the aging process entirely, remaining as playful, fresh, and quietly spectacular as the day they were made. Indeed, his body of work may be the most impressive of the French New Wave. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) has been recognized as possibly the best film to emerge from the post-New Wave era, even as Paris Belongs to Us (1961) is one of the best pictures to emerge from the New Wave itself. Rivette was hardly the most prolific director, however, and the length of his films has often counted against him. Nonetheless, his clinical, self-reflexive essays in film form reveal him as a cinematic purist whose commitment to the celluloid muse hardly diminished from the heady days of the early 1950s to the end of his career in 2009. Beyond inspiring the New Wave movement and continuing to reflect, and reflect on, its central tenets, Rivettes enduring contribution to the history of film is unquestionably evident in his sensitive treatment of the histories and destinies of women, especially through strong roles for actresses. During the six decades of his career, nonetheless, he struck a subtle balance not only between female and male characters, but also between political and personal obsession, between myth and fiction, between theater and cinema, in films that, in addition to having influenced such contemporary filmmakers as Claire Denis, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, and David Lynch, continue to redefine the art of cinema around the world.
About the Author:
James R. Russo is an independent researcher who holds graduate degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Richmond. He has taught at those schools as well as Tulane. Russos primary scholarly interests are the cinema and comparative literature. He has recently published The Bookman: William Troy on Literature and Criticism, 19271950; Film Nation: William Troy on the Cinema, 19331935; Analyzing Drama: A Student Casebook; and Understanding Film: A Viewers Guide.
See the complete filmography of Jacques Rivette on the website: IMDB ...
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Textes critiques
Dir. Miguel Armas and Luc Chessel
Subject: Director > Jacques Rivette
Das Kino des Jacques Rivette (2002)
Eine Retrospektive und Carte Blanche für Jacques Rivette
Collective
(in German)
Subject: Director > Jacques Rivette
Trois films fantômes de Jacques Rivette (2002)
Phénix, L'An II, Marie et Julien
by Jacques Rivette and Hélène Frappat
Subject: Director > Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette, critique et cinéaste (1998)
Subject: Director > Jacques Rivette
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