Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema

by T. Jefferson Kline and Professor T. Jefferson Kline

Book Overview

Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels. But the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature. With subversive techniques that exploded traditional methods of film narrative, they embraced fragmentation and alienation. Their cinema would be literature's rival, not its apprentice. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801842670
• ISBN13: 9780801842672
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.