This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir's work between his
departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and
contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the
impact of trauma.
The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for
France: La Regle du jeu was a critical and commercial disaster on
its release in July 1939 and in 1940 France was occupied by
Germany. Even so, Renoir continued to innovate and experiment with
his post-war work, yet the thirteen films he made between 1941 and
1969, constituting nearly half of his work in sound cinema, have
been sorely neglected in the study of his work.
With detailed readings of the these films and four novels
produced by Renoir in his last four decades, Davis explores the
direct and indirect ways in which film, and Renoir's films in
particular, depict the aftermath of violence.
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