Silent Renoir

Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film

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by Colin Davis

Type

Essays

Subject

Director > Jean Renoir

Keywords

Jean Renoir, silent cinema, 1920s

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 152 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-63029-4

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Book Presentation:
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works such as Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, La Bête humaine and La Règle du jeu. However, the great director’s early work from the 1920s remains almost completely unknown, even to film specialists. If it is discussed at all, it is often seen to be of interest only insofar as it anticipates themes and techniques perfected in the later masterpieces. Renoir’s films of the 1920s were sometimes unfinished, commercially unsuccessful, or unreleased at the time of their production. This book argues that to regard them merely as prefigurations of later achievements entails a failure to view them on their own terms, as searching, unsettled experiments in the meaning and potentialof film art.

About the Author:
Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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