期刊全称 | Balzac Reframed | 期刊简称 | The Classical and Mo | 影响因子2023 | Zahra Tavassoli Zea | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Treads new ground as the only single-authored book to pair Rohmer with Rivette with the purpose of exploring their commitments to Balzac.Challenges and revises common assumptions on the French New Wav | 学科分类 | Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | . .This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honoré de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film criticism, which gradually led to the establishment of a common aesthetic vision of cinema (the “politique des auteurs”), owes more to Balzac and the nineteenth-century novel than to any intellectual trend of the immediate post-war period. By considering the films of Rohmer and Rivette as an extension of their writings (essays, film reviews, scriptwriting, novels and interviews), this volume analyses the changing and sometimes opposed ways in which they applied Balzacian principles and themes to their cinematic practice. Essentially, it understands the exchange between art forms, past traditions and contemporaneous currents as the overlooked yet common thread that links these three authors, through their own re-appropriations of classical and romantic aesthetics in their explorations of modern French society. In doing so, this study provides further nuance to the “conservative” versus “progressist” rupture that is generally assumed be | Pindex | Book 2019 |
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