Truffaut: A Biography

One of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time, Francois Truffaut was an intensely private individual who cultivated the public image of a man completely consumed by his craft. But his personal story--from which he drew extensively to create the characters and plots of his films--is itself an extraordinary human drama. Now, with captivating immediacy, Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana give us the definitive story of this beloved artist. They begin with the unwanted, mischievous child who learned to love movies and books as an escape from sadness and confusion: as a boy, Francois came to identify with screen characters and to worship actresses. Following his early adult years as a journalist, during which he gained fame as France's most iconoclastic film critic, the obsessive prodigy began to make films of his own, and before he was thirty, notched the two masterpieces The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim. As Truffaut's dazzling body of work evolves, in the shadow of the politics of his day, including the student uprisings of 1968, we watch him learning the lessons of his masters Fellini and Hitchcock. And we witness the progress of his often tempestuous personal relationships, including his violent falling-out with Jean-Luc Godard (who owed Truffaut the idea for Breathless) and his rapturous love affairs with the many glamorous actresses he directed, among them Jacqueline Bisset and Jeanne Moreau. With Fanny Ardant, Truffaut had a child only thirteen months before dying of a brain tumor at the age of fifty-two. Here is a life of astonishing emotional range, from the anguish of severe depression to the exaltation of Oscar victory. Based on unprecedented access to Truffaut's papers, including notes toward an unwritten autobiography, de Baecque and Toubiana's richly detailed work is an incomparably authoritative revelation of a singular genius.

Biographies & Memoirs

Toubiana, Serge

De Baecque, Antoine

Arts & Literature

KNOPF

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

History

Americas

Routledge

Glory and Terror

Europe

This is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe the revolution in progress.The author draws upon some 2,000 texts, pamphlets, announcements, opinions, accounts, treatises, and journals to exhume the textual reality of the Revolution, the body of its history. The deployment of bodily images—the degeneracy of the nobility, the impotence of the king, the herculean strength of the citizenry, the goddess of politics appearing naked like Truth, the bleeding wounds of the Republican martyrs—allowed political society to represent itself at a pivotal moment in its history.Searching for "the body of history," the author finds three forms of political representation: first, the metaphysical representation of the body as an anthropomorphic symbol of the political system—the transition of sovereignty from the body of the king to the great citizen body; second, the metaphorical representation of the body as a tool of discourse for persuasion—the embodied tale of the revolutionary epic; and third, the representation of the body in public ceremonies—street carnivals and funerals.The introductory chapter studies the symbolic defeat of the king's body and the transfer of virility to the Republican body. Later chapters examine the new patriotic body as described in medical terms; paintings by David that show the revolutionary hero as "political body"; the Revolutionary subject conceived in terms of regeneration; its opposite, the aristocratic body, conceived as monstrous; and the bestial images projected onto Marie Antoinette.

The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800 (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)

Stanford University Press

About the Author\nAntoine de Baecque est historien, Professeur à l’École normale supérieure. Il a été rédacteur en chef des Cahiers du cinéma, puis des pages culturelles de Libération et a publié des essais, dont en 2018 une Histoire des crétins des Alpes, et un premier roman, Les Talons rouges, en 2017.\nNoël Herpe est maître de conférences à l’université de Paris-VIII. Auteur ou curateur de plusieurs ouvrages (sur René Clair ou Sacha Guitry), il a coordonné le recueil Rohmer et les Autres, ainsi qu’un livre d’entretiens avec Rohmer autour de son texte Le Celluloïd et le Marbre (2010). Il a fait paraître deux récits autobiographiques remarqués, Journal en ruines (2011) et Mes scènes primitives (2013).\nQue sait-on d’Éric Rohmer, sinon qu’il incarne une manière très française et très raffi née de faire du cinéma ? De lui, on connaît quelques titres : Ma nuit chez Maud, L’Amour, l’après midi, Les Nuits de la pleine lune… On sait aussi combien le cinéaste aimait fi lmer de jeunes et jolies femmes, les « rohmériennes », d’Arielle Dombasle à Rosette, de Pascale Ogier à Marie Rivière… On se souvient encore qu’il lança plusieurs acteurs, qui devaient faire leur chemin sans lui : Jean-Claude Brialy, Fabrice Luchini ou Pascal Greggory. 
Mais sait-on par exemple que l’ensemble de ses vingt-cinq longs métrages ont attiré en France plus de huit millions de spectateurs, et quelques millions d’autres autour du monde ? Sait-on qu’un autre homme, Maurice Schérer, se cachait derrière le pseudonyme d’Éric Rohmer, tant il aimait s’inventer des doubles et masquer son visage derrière ses films ? 
Voici la première biographie d’Éric Rohmer : puritain et esthète, catholique pratiquant et amoureux de la beauté sous toutes ses formes, rédacteur en chef des Cahiers du cinéma et homme de télévision, citoyen désengagé, nostalgique de l’Ancien Régime – qui aura fi ni par voter écologiste. Un homme riche de ses contradictions, et de l’extraordinaire diversité de ses curiosités artistiques. 
Nourri d’archives inédites, ce livre dessine le portrait d’un grand metteur en scène qui fut également écrivain, dessinateur, compositeur, producteur et parfois même acteur ! Un véritable homme-orchestre, pour qui le cinéma fut la somme de tous les arts.

Biographie d'Éric Rohmer (French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Herpe, Noël

Social Sciences

Stock

DUELS: L'ART DU COMBAT

Bois, Jean-Pierre

Seth, Catriona

PRÉVÔT, DOMINIQUE

BOVET, JULIA

Six, Gérard

LOUDCHER, JEAN-FRANÇOIS

Roussel, Diane

Boli, Claude

Bara, Olivier

GAUTHIER, CHRISTOPHE

CHOUINARD, MAXIME

RIBARD, DINAH

BOUDOU-REUZÉ, HÉLÈNE

MOURARET, VINCENT

WIMART, JULIEN

IN FINE

Histoire d'une Revue T. 2: Cinéma, Tours Détours

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

CAH CINEMA

Coffret Histoire d'une Revue

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Histoire et Cinéma

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