Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence

by Colin Davis

Book Overview

This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir's work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma.

The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La R gle du jeu was a critical and commercial disaster on its release in July 1939 and in 1940 France was occupied by Germany. Even so, Renoir continued to innovate and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415806976
• ISBN13: 9780415806978
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"