Totally Truffaut: 23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker

by Anne Gillain

Book Overview

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? Fran ois Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and doomed relationship with Catherine Deneuve. The book focuses first on the process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019753631X
• ISBN13: 9780197536315
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 6.3"