FR118: Film Screenings and Bibliography
Films
- Jean Renoir, La Bête humaine (1938)
- Jacques Audiard, Un héros très discret (1996)
To view these films, please go to the Moodle area of the SRFT page here: http://m2.warwicklanguage.org.uk/course/view.php?id=164#section-10
Basic Reading (on film):
- David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001).
- Pam Cook (ed.), The Cinema Book (London: BFI, 2007).
- Michael Temple and Michael Witt (eds.), The French Cinema Book (London: BFI, 2007).
- Susan Hayward, French National Cinema (London: Routledge, 2005).
- Phil Powrie and Keith Reader, French Cinema: A Student's Guide (London: Arnold, 2002).
- Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film (New York: Longman, 1998).
- Ginette Vincendeau, Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London; New York: Continuum, 2000)
- Rémi Lanzoni, French Cinema from its Beginnings to the Present (London; New York: Continuum, 2002)
Some suggestions for secondary reading
La Bête humaine
Journal articles
- Katherine Golson, '"Vous allez vous user les yeux": Renoir's Framing of La Bête humaine', The French Review, 73, Oct 1999, 110 - 120. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/397991
- John Anzalone, 'Sound Tracks: Zola, Renoir and La Bête humaine', The French Review, 62, 1989, 583-590. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/395740
- Florianne Wild, 'Colliding with History in La Bête Humaine: Reading Renoir's Cinécriture', Literature/Film Quarterly 31. 2 (2003), 111 - 117. Journal available electronically via the library catalogue.
Book articles
- Ginette Vincendeau, 'Music, Crime and the Gaze: la Bête humaine (1938)', in Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory, edited by Tom Brown and James Walters, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 85 - 89.
- Ginette Vincendeau, 'The Beast's Beauty: Jean Gabin, Masculinity and the French Hero', in Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader, edited by Pam Cook and Philip Dodd (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993), pp. 115 - 122.
- Michele Lagny, 'The Fleeing Gaze: Jean Renoir's La Bète humaine', in French Film: Texts and Contexts, edited by Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau, 42 - 62 (London: Routledge, 2000)
Books
- Martin O'Shaughnessy, Jean Renoir (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
- Raymond Durgnat, Jean Renoir (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).
Interviews with Renoir on the film
http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86635742
Un Héros très discret
Journal Articles
- Chris Darke, 'Monsieur Memory', Sight and Sound Magazine, vol 7, Issue 4 (April 1997), 24 - 27. This article is available electronically here: http://0-fiaf.chadwyck.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/fulltext/indexFullText.do?id=005/986662831&area=index&fromToC=yes&jid=006/0000306 You may be asked to sign in through the library web page. The article includes an interview with Audiard.
- Jill Forbes, 'Politicians and Performers: Un héros très discret', Australian Journal of French Studies, XXXVI, 1999, 125 - 135. Available on FR118 course extracts page.
Book articles
- Howard Seal, ‘Screening the past: representing resistance in Un héros très discret', in Lucy Mazdon (ed), France on film: reflections on popular French cinema (London: Wallflower Press, 2001), pp. 107 - 117. Available on FR118 course extracts page.
- Noël Herpe, 'Jacques Audiard on Un Héros très discret', in French Film Makers on Film Making, edited by John Boorman et al (London: Faber & Faber, 1999), pp. 175 - 182. Available on FR118 course extracts page.
- Kathryn Lauten, '"Dusting off" Dehousse: Un Héros très discret (Audiard, 1996)', in French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference: Essays, edited by Phil Powrie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 58 - 68. Available on FR118 course extracts page.
- Julia Dobson, 'Jacques Audiard: Contesting Filiations', in Kate Ince (ed.), Five Directors: Auteurism from Assayas to Ozon (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008). Available on FR118 course extracts page.
La Bête humaine powerpoint slides
La Bête humaine lecture recording
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