TY - BOOK AU - Thiher,Allen TI - The cinematic muse: critical studies in the history of French cinema SN - 0826202772 AV - PN 1993.5 T439c 1979 U1 - 791.43 PY - 1979/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Motion pictures KW - France KW - Películas cinematográficas KW - Francia KW - Motion picture plays, French KW - History and criticism KW - Obras cinematográficas N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 207-214; [1.] The avant-garde: The impressionist avant-garde -- Surrealism's enduring bite: Un Chien andalou -- The surrealist film: Man Ray and the limits of metaphor -- Le Sang d'un Poéte: film as orphism -- [2.] In the wake of surrealism: From Entr'acte to a Nous la Liberté: René Clair and the order of farce -- Vigo's Zéro de conduite: surrealism and the myth of childhood -- [3.] Film and society: Jean Renoir and the mimesis of history -- Prévert and Carné's Le Jour se lève: proletarian tragedy -- [4.] Existentialist moment: Bresson's Un condamné à mort: the semiotics of grace -- The existential play in Truffaut's early films -- [5.] Postmodernism: L'Année dernière a Marienbad: the narration of narration -- Postmodern dilemmas: Godard's Alphaville and Deux ou trois choses que je sias d'elle -- Afterword: Is film a language? ER -