With films like Les Amants and Le Souffle au coeur, Atlantic City and Au Revoir les enfants, French writer-director Louis Malle compiled a remarkable 40-year career, creating thirty acclaimed features and documentaries. Despite this success, Malle's work has not received the critical attention it is due--largely because for nearly thirty years, several of his films remained unavailable to the public.
This is the first book-length critical study of Malle's entire oeuvre, covering The Silent World (1956) through Vanya on 42nd Street (1994). Here, Malle's work is approached non-theoretically on a film-by-film basis; each motion picture is examined as an individualistic, self-referential exploration of its own subjects and themes, with form and style relative to content. The darker, more provocative side of Malle's films is also explored, and the director's need to challenge his audiences ethically is addressed. Film analyses are supplemented by interviews with those who have worked with Malle.
A bibliography of major American, French and British books and articles on Malle is included, as is a Malle filmography, including cast and crew information, running times, years of release, production company data and a list of awards and award nominations for each film.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
23 photos, appendices, notes, filmography, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-6440-1 (9780786464401)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
A former film and television story editor and Boston University graduate, Nathan C. Southern now freelances as a writer. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Jacques Weissgerber lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Heather McBrier lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Louis Malle, the Elusive One by Jean-Claude Carriere
Preface
Introduction: Louis Malle-Mainstream Iconoclast
1. Le Monde du silence (The Silent World)-1956
Plunging Through the Fourth Wall
2. Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)-1957
The Illusions of a Romantic
3. Les Amants (The Lovers)-1958
Restoration of the Sacred
4. Zazie dans le metro (Zazie)-1960
The World as Carnival
5. Vie privee (A Very Private Affair)-1961
The Myth of Emptiness
6. Le Feu follet (The Fire Within)-1963
Falling into the Gray Void
7. Viva Maria-1965
Only a Paper Moon
8. Le Voleur (The Thief of Paris)-1967
Deflected Emotion and the Art of Memory
9. Calcutta and Phantom India (L'Inde fantome)-1968-1969
The Universe Through a Looking Glass
10. Le Sou?e au coeur (Murmur of the Heart)-1971
East Meets West
11. Humain, trop humain and Place de la Republique-1972
(released 1974)
On the Road Again
12. Lacombe, Lucien-1974
The Politics of Detachment
13. Black Moon-1975
Timeless, Placeless, Senseless
14. Pretty Baby (La Petite)-1978
A Tainted World Through Innocent Eyes
15. Atlantic City-1980
Dreams and Visions of Self
16. My Dinner with Andre-1981
Notes on Generativity
17. Crackers-1984
More Than He Needed or Wanted
18. Alamo Bay-1985
The Weight of the Unfamiliar
19. God's Country (Le Pays de dieu)-1985 / And the Pursuit of Happiness (La Poursuite du bonheur)-1986
The Well-Rooted and the Transient
20. Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children)-1987
Revisiting Old Haunts
21. Milou en mai (May Fools)-1990
Collective Mythmaking
22. Damage (Fatale)-1992
Double Standards
23. Vanya on 42nd Street-1994
The Process of Becoming
24. Vive le tour (Twist encore)-1962 / Bons Baisers de Bangkok (Love and Kisses from Bangkok)-1964 / "William Wilson" (From Histoires extraordinaires)-1969 Brief Encounters: Three Malle Shorts
Appendix A: Lost Horizons-Selected Unfinished Malle Projects, 1949-1994
by Stephanie Gregoire
Appendix B: Filmography
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
