Totally Truffaut : 23 films for understanding the man and the filmmaker / Anne Gillain ; foreword by Martin Scorsese ; foreword to the French edition by Michel Marie ; translated by Alistair Fox ; edited by Barry Lydgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillain, Anne, author.

Scorsese, Martin, author of foreword.

Marie-Michel, author of foreword to French edition.

Contributor:

Fox, Alistair, translator.

Lydgate, Barry, editor.

Standardized Title:

Tout Truffaut. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Truffaut, François--Criticism and interpretation.

Truffaut, François.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"With this book, I try answering in a clear language two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate but doomed relationship with Catherine Deneuve. I focus first on the process that embeds experience into fictions, and more specifically into visual forms and patterns. I also try to define the mode of perception film language triggers in the spectator. When entering a movie theater, we expect perceptual pleasure. Truffaut's creative work is devoted to distilling this drug to audiences, an ambition central to the evolution of his style. These two issues are closely connected and Totally Truffaut follows, film after film, their crisscrossing paths. It also highlights the essential role several great actresses-Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Dorléac, Jacqueline Bisset, Isabelle Adjani, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the creation of the films"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Les Mistons (1958)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Jules and Jim (1962)

Antoine and Colette (1962)

The Soft Skin (1964)

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

The Bride Wore Black (1967)

Stolen fosses (1968)

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

The Wild Child (1970)

Bed & Board (1970)

Two English Girls (1971)

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)

Day for Night (1973)

The Story of Adele H. (1975)

Small Change (1976)

The Man Who Loved Women (1977)

The Green Room (1978)

Love on the Run (1979)

The Last Metro (1980)

The Woman Next Door (1981)

Confidentially Yours (1983).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gillain, Anne. Totally Truffaut

ISBN:

9780197536308

0197536301

9780197536315

019753631X

OCLC:

1245960567

Publisher Number:

99989249488