Titlebook: Silent Renoir; Philosophy and the I Colin Davis Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Sprin

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The Missing Real: , and ,,ecially his silent films—are valued insofar as they anticipate the techniques and themes of his 1930s period, and they are denigrated insofar as they do not. For André Bazin, Renoir’s most influential admirer, Renoir is essentially a realist filmmaker. This chapter discusses a less realist Renoir th

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In Pursuit of the Untamed Other: , and ,,ever finished and rarely shown. The second is sometimes depicted as little better than a propaganda film, made to celebrate the centenary of the French occupation of Algeria. This chapter argues that both works are nuanced reflections on France and its others; and both depict the fear and seduction

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Conclusion,ding and interpreting silent cinema. Renoir’s films are aesthetically inconsistent and uneven in quality. But what traverses all Renoir’s work is a sometimes playful, always serious interest in what it means to be human, embodied, moral and fallible; what one knows and can know about other selves an

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But Is It Art?: Heidegger, (Moving) Images and the Interpretation of Early Film,iders the possibility of a ‘Heideggerian cinema’. It then goes on to use a sequence from Renoir’s . to suggest that despite Heidegger’s conception of art, which would appear to exclude film from the conditions of major works, silent film may have the capacity to create meaning and disclose truth.

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Reading and Overreading Film, to one another. This is tested with reference to an emotional sequence from Renoir’s ., which overwhelms the viewer with contradictory implications. The chapter considers how we should negotiate the partial or conflicting suggestions with which we have to attend in the work of making sense of movin

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,The Woman Who Wasn’t There: Catherine Hessling,performances. It is perhaps fitting that her last appearance in a Renoir film is easily missable. After her cameo in . Hessling all but disappeared from the public scene. Her marriage to Renoir would soon be over, and after a handful of performances in other films she would abandon her career altoge

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