Alain Resnais (French Film Directors)Alain Resnais, director of Hiroshima Mon Amour and L'Année Derniere à Marienbad, has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating new introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais's films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond. |
Contents
Documentaries 194858 | 16 |
List of plates I First impression Nuit et brouillard 1955 page | 39 |
Liminal image LAnnée dernière à Marienbad 1961 | 40 |
Fantasy and the tactile LAnnée dernière à Marienbad 1961 | 41 |
Bernard Muriel 1963 | 42 |
Janine as a child Mon oncle dAmérique 1980 | 43 |
Laboratory rat Mon oncle dAmérique 1980 | 44 |
Camille and Nicolas On connaît la chanson 1997 | 45 |
Hiroshima mon amour 1959 | 46 |
Muriel ou le temps dun retour 1963 | 85 |
La Guerre est finie 1966 Je taime je taime 1968 | 108 |
Providence 1977 | 131 |
Mon oncle dAmérique 1980 La vie est un roman 1983 | 147 |
SmokingNo Smoking 1993 On connaît la chanson 1997 | 171 |
FILMOGRAPHY | 199 |
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