Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema
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Cinema has always been literary in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels. But the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature. With subversive techniques that exploded traditional methods of film narrative, they embraced fragmentation and alienation. Their cinema would be literature's rival, not its apprentice. In...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801874319
ISBN13:9780801874314
Release Date:July 2003
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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