The Taste for Beauty is a collection of essays by the film-maker and critic Eric Rohmer which were originally written for the French Film review Cahiers du Cinema between 1948-1979. Rohmer, one of the founding members of the French 'New Wave' cinema, was also one of the journal's original critics and served as its editor. Divided into four sections, the essays deal with fundamental and theoretical questions of film-making from a single theoretical viewpoint. Rohmer, a film-maker of great eloquence and erudition, writes in depth on the issues most fundamental to film: what the camera best portrays; the role of sound and colour; the use of drama and comedy; the role of speech; and the problem of literary adaptation; he also includes a personal defence of his films. The final section is devoted entirely to the film-maker Jean Renoir. The Taste for Beauty will be appreciated by students and critics of film, as well as those who love French cinema in general.
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"Film scholarship is richly served in...The Taste for Beauty.... Carol Volk's translation is notable for its lucid rendering of the subtleties of the French language." George L. George, American Cinematographer
"Film scholarship is richly served in...The Taste for Beauty.... Carol Volk's translation is notable for its lucid rendering of the subtleties of the French language." George L. George, American Cinematographer
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The systematic use of the still shot, in works by directors like Orson Welles, Wyler, or Hitchcock, has recently reminded us that the art of cinema is not limited solely to the technique of changing frames. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contes moraux, politique des auteurs, film club, indirect style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Orson Welles, Buster Keaton, Maurice Scherer, The Southerner, Bigger Than Life, Howard Hawks, South Pacific, Under Capricorn, Citizen Kane, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Les Girls, Paris Does Strange Things, Rear Window, The Barefoot Contessa, The Golden Coach, The River, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, Archibaldo de la Cruz, Ladies of the Park, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Marcel Ichac, The Crime of Monsieur Lange New!
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The systematic use of the still shot, in works by directors like Orson Welles, Wyler, or Hitchcock, has recently reminded us that the art of cinema is not limited solely to the technique of changing frames. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contes moraux, politique des auteurs, film club, indirect style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Orson Welles, Buster Keaton, Maurice Scherer, The Southerner, Bigger Than Life, Howard Hawks, South Pacific, Under Capricorn, Citizen Kane, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Les Girls, Paris Does Strange Things, Rear Window, The Barefoot Contessa, The Golden Coach, The River, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, Archibaldo de la Cruz, Ladies of the Park, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Marcel Ichac, The Crime of Monsieur Lange New!
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- Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir on 7 pages
- What Is Cinema? Vol. 1 by Andre Bazin on 4 pages
- Six Moral Tales by Eric Rohmer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Orson Welles by Andre Bazin on page 28, page 84, and page 104
- Citizen Kane (Screenplay) by Orson Welles on page 28, page 136, and page 139
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- Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema by T. Jefferson Kline on 4 pages
- The 'I' of the Camera: Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics (Cambridge Studies in Film) by William Rothman in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 321
- Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian Keathley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Visual Turn (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) by Angela Dalle Vacche in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Open City #2 by Martha McPhee in Front Matter
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