Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) : From 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' / Marco Grosoli.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Film Theory in Media History | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:
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  • computer
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  • 9789048537037
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Cover; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Novelistic Art of Space; 1.1. Sartre's ontology; 1.2. A novelistic ontology?; 1.3. Cinema: Novelistic consciousness qua actual nothingness; 1.4. An art of space; 1.5. An art of appearance for appearance's sake; 1.6. Space vs. language; 1.7. An art more novelistic than the novel itself; 2. Alexandre Astruc: An Early but Decisive Influence; 2.1. Kant's transcendental aesthetics -- and Heidegger's reinterpretation; 2.2. 'Dialectique et cinema'; 2.3. From and beyond Sartre's Heideggerian perspective; 2.4. The 'Camera-Stylo'
3. Under and On the Volcano: Rohmer's Conversion3.1. The Other; 3.2. The triumph of exteriority over interiority; 3.3. Pulling phenomenology back to its Kantian roots; 3.4. Ethics; 3.5. God?; 3.6. Echoes of the conversion; 4. The Art of Nature; 4.1. To show and not to tell; 4.2. Natural beauty; 4.3. Immediate mediation; 4.4. Movement and narrative; 4.5. Mechanism as the background for freedom; 5. Ethics at the Heart of Aesthetics; 5.1. On abjection: The Wages of Fear; 5.2. Films with a soul; 5.3. Tragedy; 5.4. Solitude morale.
5.5. The vertiginous moment: The reversal between inside and outside6. After Modernity: Rohmer's Classicism and Universalism; 6.1. Beyond modern art; 6.2. Classic = Modern; 6.3. An anti-evolutionist approach; 6.4. Universalism; 6.5. Authorship and mise en scene; Conclusion; About the Author; Index of Names.
Summary: In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for 'Cahiers du Cinema' launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is frequently usually viewed as limited and a bit old-fashioned, a closer inspection of the hundreds of little-read articles by these critics reveals that the movement rested upon a much more layered and intriguing aesthetics of cinema. This book is a first step toward a serious reassessment of the mostly unspoken theoretical and aesthetic premises underlying auteur theory, built around a reconstruction of Eric Rohmer's early but decisive leadership of the group, whereby he laid down the foundations for the eventual emergence of their full-fledged auteurism.
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Cover; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Novelistic Art of Space; 1.1. Sartre's ontology; 1.2. A novelistic ontology?; 1.3. Cinema: Novelistic consciousness qua actual nothingness; 1.4. An art of space; 1.5. An art of appearance for appearance's sake; 1.6. Space vs. language; 1.7. An art more novelistic than the novel itself; 2. Alexandre Astruc: An Early but Decisive Influence; 2.1. Kant's transcendental aesthetics -- and Heidegger's reinterpretation; 2.2. 'Dialectique et cinema'; 2.3. From and beyond Sartre's Heideggerian perspective; 2.4. The 'Camera-Stylo'

3. Under and On the Volcano: Rohmer's Conversion3.1. The Other; 3.2. The triumph of exteriority over interiority; 3.3. Pulling phenomenology back to its Kantian roots; 3.4. Ethics; 3.5. God?; 3.6. Echoes of the conversion; 4. The Art of Nature; 4.1. To show and not to tell; 4.2. Natural beauty; 4.3. Immediate mediation; 4.4. Movement and narrative; 4.5. Mechanism as the background for freedom; 5. Ethics at the Heart of Aesthetics; 5.1. On abjection: The Wages of Fear; 5.2. Films with a soul; 5.3. Tragedy; 5.4. Solitude morale.

5.5. The vertiginous moment: The reversal between inside and outside6. After Modernity: Rohmer's Classicism and Universalism; 6.1. Beyond modern art; 6.2. Classic = Modern; 6.3. An anti-evolutionist approach; 6.4. Universalism; 6.5. Authorship and mise en scene; Conclusion; About the Author; Index of Names.

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In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for 'Cahiers du Cinema' launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is frequently usually viewed as limited and a bit old-fashioned, a closer inspection of the hundreds of little-read articles by these critics reveals that the movement rested upon a much more layered and intriguing aesthetics of cinema. This book is a first step toward a serious reassessment of the mostly unspoken theoretical and aesthetic premises underlying auteur theory, built around a reconstruction of Eric Rohmer's early but decisive leadership of the group, whereby he laid down the foundations for the eventual emergence of their full-fledged auteurism.

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