Les Diaboliques

Humor & Entertainment

Hayward, Susan

Movies

University of Illinois Press

Les diaboliques (The Fiends) is an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery, and suspense, and was a top grossing film in 1955. Henri-Georges Clouzot shrouded his film in mystery, beseeching his audience not to give away the ending, and radically changed the original story, heterosexualizing the original lesbian plot. His film is a study in how to imply rather than show horror, keeping the spectator in a state of continued suspense, only to be released in the few final frames. Fifty years later, Les diaboliques still intrigues viewers with its myriad ambiguities, numerous plot twists, and the great performance of Simone Signoret. In this enjoyable and challenging volume, Susan Hayward, leading writer on French cinema, sets Les diaboliques against the political culture of its time and demonstrates the importance of Clouzot as a master of the thriller genre. She gives an illuminating, in-depth textual analysis of the film and compares it with its U.S. remake, which, juxtaposed with the original and the book on which it is based, highlights the great staying power of Clouzot's version, still popular with international audiences half a century after its première.

Les Diaboliques (French Film Guides)

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A Guide for the Advanced Soul: A Book of Insight

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Little. Brown and Company

Using the Regenerative economic model - also known as Doughnut Economics - Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary approach to both film theory and film practice. This book attempts to answer the questions posed by T.J. Demos (in Against the Anthropocene, 2017): how do we find a way to address planetary harm and the issues it raises within the field of Film Studies? How do we construct a theoretical model that allows us to visualize the ecological transgressions brought about by the growth-model of capitalism which is heavily endorsed by mainstream narrative cinema? By turning to the model set out in Kate Raworth's book Doughnut Economics (2017) and adapting its fundamental principles to a study of narrative cinema, Film Ecology proposes to show how, by using this model, we can usefully plot and investigate films according to criteria that are not genre/star/auteur-led, nor indeed embedded in anthropocentric theoretical models, but principles which are ecologically based. These arguments are brought to life with examples from mainstream narrative films such as The Giant (1956), Mildred Pierce (1945), Erin Brockovich (2000), Wall Street (1987), Hotel Rwanda (2004), and Missing Figures (2016). This approach will inspire film practitioners, film theorists, critics and analysts, film students and film lovers alike to consider how they might integrate this Doughnut model into their thinking or work as part of their process.

Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere ― Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Ecology Documentaries: Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics

Reference

Cinema Studies (Routledge Key Guides)

Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms. 
This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality; questions related to race and representation; the Black Lives Matter movement; and New Wave Cinemas of Eastern European countries. Further new entries include accented/exilic cinema, border-cinema, the oppositional gaze, sonic sound and Black westerns. Existing entries have been updated, including discussion of #MeToo, and more contemporary film examples have been added throughout. 
This is a must-have guide for any student starting out on this fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

"Information Classification: General &lt; &gt; Cinema Studies Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms. Now fully revised and updated, the book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as: Film and environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality, race and the Black Lives Matter movement and updated existing entries, including discussion of #MeToo and more contemporary film examples throughout. This is a must-have guide for any student starting out on this fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times"--

French films have always been popular with English-speaking audiences, but surprisingly few critical studies are available in English in single-volume form. This new look at classic French films, from the 1920s to the 1980s, provides detailed analyses of central texts within the canon of French cinema. Whether unavoidable 'monuments' like Gance's Napoleon , critical cult films like Resanis's Hiroshima, mon amour and Godard's Le Mepris , popular classics such as Carne's Les Enfants du paradis , or Tati's es Vacances de M. Hulot, or recent works of the calibre of Rohmer's Les Nuits de la pleine lune or Varda's Sans toit ni loi , they have all become part of an essential French repertory. The essays in this collection investigate the different ways in which these and other films textually inscribe and rework a variety of other cultural and historical texts. The diversity of disciplines - history, literary studies, semiotics, psychoanalytic - that form the background of the contributors' work guarantees such a variety of approach, making this an informative and challenging study for students of French cinema and cultural studies, as well as for lovers of French film.

French Film: Texts and Contexts

French National Cinema (National Cinemas)

This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cinema that contests it.Susan Hayward argues that writing on French national cinema has tended to focus on either `great' film-makers or on specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an `ecohistory' of the French film industry, she then traces the various movements in French cinema and the directors associated with them, including the avant-garde, Poetic-Realist, New Wave and today's postmodern cinema. Her analysis includes, amongst other considerations, the social and political concerns these cinemas reflect.

This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cinema that contests it. Susan Hayward argues that writing on French national cinema has tended to focus on either `great' film-makers or on specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an `ecohistory' of the French film industry, she then traces the various movements in French cinema and the directors associated with them, including the avant-garde, Poetic-Realist, New Wave and today's postmodern cinema. Her analysis includes, amongst other considerations, the social and political concerns these cinemas reflect.

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Les Diaboliques

Les Diaboliques (French Film Guides)

A Guide for the Advanced Soul: A Book of Insight

Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere ― Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice

Ecology Documentaries: Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Cinema Studies (Routledge Key Guides)

French Film: Texts and Contexts

French National Cinema (National Cinemas)

French National Cinema (National Cinemas)