The Films of Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.

"The Films of Eric Rohmer investigates anew the productive relationships between history, philosophy, gender, and genre within Rohmer's long and fascinating career. Furthermore, this important collection offers a wealth of insightful perspectives on the rich and complicated legacies of Rohmer's essays and films and their momentous place within French film culture." - Richard Neupert, author of A History of the French New Wave Cinema

"The book's catholic approach is appropriate to a filmmaker whose own religious persuasions shaped his work and responses to them . . . Anderst's collection offers an elegant range of perspectives from which to view Rohmer's work." - Sight&Sound

Autorentext
André Aciman, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Dudley Andrew, Yale University, USA Antoine de Baecque, l'Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, France Jerry W. Carlson, City College, CUNY, USA Mark Cohen, St. Johns University, USA Nathalie Fouyer, Queen's College, CUNY, USA Tom Gunning, University of Chicago, USA Fiona Handyside, University of Exeter, UK Mary Harrod, King's College London, UK Noël Herpe, l'Université de Paris 8, France Aimée Israel-Pelletier, University of Texas at Arlington,USA T. Jefferson Kline, Boston University, USA Pierre Lethier, Buckingham University and London Film School, UK Ivone Margulies, Hunter College, CUNY, USA Derek Schilling, Johns Hopkins University, USA Keith Tester, University of Hull, UK Matthew Thorpe, University of Kent, UK Timothy E. Wilson, CUNY Graduate Center, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; Leah Anderst 1. Evening with Rohmer; André Aciman PART I: ROHMER: CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER 2. Eric Rohmer and the Legacy of Cinematic Realism; Tom Gunning 3. Practicing What He Preaches? Continuities and Discontinuities in Rohmer's Early Film Criticism and his Conte d'automne ; T. Jefferson Kline 4. Ma Nuit chez Maud and the Moral Imagination: Rhymes, Symmetries, and Variations on an Ethical Theme; Matthew Thorpe PART II: NARRATION, FRAMES, GENRES 5. The Fall into Words: From Contes des quatre saisons to L'Anglaise et le duc ; Noël Herpe and translated by Timothy E. Wilson 6. Eric Rohmer's Magnetic Fluid; Dudley Andrew 7. Imagination and Grace: Rohmer's Contes des quatre saisons ; Keith Tester 8. Auteur Meets Genre: Rohmer and the Rom-Com; Mary Harrod PART III: POLITICS, GENDER, AND CLASS 9. Rohmer/Politics: From Royalism to Ecology; Antoine de Baecque and translated by Nathalie Fouyer 10. On the Class Character of Desire: Romantic Heroics in the Contes moraux ; Derek Schilling 11. Rohmer's Realism: Women on the Border of What Is and What Might Be; Aimée Israel-Pelletier PART IV: ARCHITECTURE, PLACES, AND SPACE 12. The Changing Landscape and Rohmer's Temptation of Architecture; Ivone Margulies 13. Walking in the City: Paris in the Films of Eric Rohmer; Fiona Handyside 14. Rohmer's Poetics of Placelessness; Leah Anderst PART V: ADAPTING HISTORY AND LITERATURE 15. Eric Rohmer, Historiographer; Jerry W. Carlson 16. Eric Rohmer's Talking Heads: Listening to the Classical Text in La Bruyère ; Mark Cohen 17. Triple Agent : Eric Rohmer and the Tumult of the Inter-war Years; Pierre Lethier