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Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence (Routledge Advances in Film Studies) - Softcover

Book 12 of 78: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Davis, Colin

 
9781138695863: Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138695866 ISBN 13: 9781138695863
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma.

The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a critical and commercial disaster on its release in July 1939 and in 1940 France was occupied by Germany. Even so, Renoir continued to innovate and experiment with his post-war work, yet the thirteen films he made between 1941 and 1969, constituting nearly half of his work in sound cinema, have been sorely neglected in the study of his work.

With detailed readings of the these films and four novels produced by Renoir in his last four decades, Davis explores the direct and indirect ways in which film, and Renoir’s films in particular, depict the aftermath of violence.

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About the Author

Colin Davis is Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138695866
ISBN 13 
9781138695863
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
184