Eric Rohmer : filmmaker and philosopher / Vittorio Hösle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hösle, Vittorio, author.

Series:

Philosophical Filmmakers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rohmer, Éric, 1920-2010--Criticism and interpretation.

Rohmer, Éric.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Summary:

Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century. One of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical principles articulated in the Cahiers du Cinema, he was fired when as a conservative Catholic he opposed its turn toward politicization. Like some of his colleagues, Rohmer is extremely interested in both the history and the philosophy of film. Brother of the noted French philosopher Rene Scherer, he begins his career as a film critic. In his films, deep moral conflicts as well as the search for one's own identity emerge from the intricacies of seemingly superficial everyday life interactions, particularly between a man and a woman. Hosle's book puts Rohmer in the context of a long French tradition of reflected eroticism, with Marivaux, Musset, Stendhal, and Jean Renoir as crucial figures, and shows how Rohmer both recognizes the inner logic of eroticism and subjects it to moral demands that he inherits from his Catholic background. For Rohmer, the tension between the two can usually only be solved by some unexpected event that can be interpreted as an equivalent of grace.

Contents:

FC ; Half title; Philosophical Filmmakers; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Preface; 1 The Nature of Contemporary Eroticism: Between Art of Seduction and Nostalgia for the Unconditional; A Very Short History of Eroticism; 2 Six contes moraux; Playing with a Toy and Flirting Aiming at a Third Party: La Boulangère de Monceau and La Carrière de; The Erotic Attractivity of Catholics: Ma nuit chez Maud; Narcissism and Promiscuity: La Collectionneuse; Rousseauism and Telling on Others: Le genou de Claire; Venus and Juno: L'Amour l'après-midi; 3 Comédies et proverbes

The Erotic Loser: La Femme de l'aviateurMarriage as Purpose? Le Beau mariage; Beach Seductions: Pauline à la plage; One Woman, Three Men, and Three Forms of Love: Les Nuits de la pleine lune; The Search for the Confirming Sign: Le Rayon vert; Elective Affinities in an Erotic Quadrilateral: L'Ami de mon amie; 4 Contes de quatre saisons; Playing the Pander for One's Father? Conte de printemps; One Man, Three Women, and Three Forms of Love: Conte d'été; Playing the Pander for One's Friend: Conte d'automne; Waiting Beyond Rational Hope: Conte d'hiver; 5 The Idea of a Realist Cinema

What Does Realism Mean for Rohmer?6 Content and Form in Pauline à la plage: Interweaving Words and Images; The Imagery of Fall and Redemption; 7 Rohmer the Non-Moralizing Moralist; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4742-2116-5

1-4742-2114-9