Balzac Reframed - The Classical and Modern Faces of Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honore de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Eric 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 between the two directors, and offers an innovative reading of The Human Comedy in the light of post-war ideas on authorship, film adaptation, classicism and modernism.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Zahra Tavassoli Zea
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-030614-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-030614-3
Barcode:	9783030306144

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