Decades never start on time : a Richard Roud anthology /: a Richard Roud anthology. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Richard Roud anthology
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Richard Roud ; edited by Michael Temple & Karen Smolens.
• Authors: Roud, Richard
• Editors: Temple, Michael, 1963-; Smolens, Karen
• Other Names: British Film Institute.
• Contents: <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Acknowledgements ; Preface; David Thomson; Introduction; Michael Temple; Chronology; Karen Smolens; PART 1: 1956-1962; 1.1 'Britain in America'; 1.2 Max Ophüls: An Index (extract); 1.3 'Face to face: James Agee'; 1.4 'Face to face: André Bazin'; 1.5 'How to see a movie (in the USA)'; 1.6 'Novel novel; fable fable?'; 1.7 'National Film Theatre: the first ten years'; 1.8 'The Left Bank: Marker, Varda, Resnais'; PART 2: 1963-1969; 2.1 'Festival at the Lincoln Center'; 2.2 'End of Bardolotry'; 2.3 'Muriel observed'; 2.4 'Cannes ho!'; 2.5 'Rondo Galant: the world of Jacques Demy'; 2.6 'The Red Desert'; 2.7 'Object lesson'; 2.8 'Anguish: Alphaville'; 2.9 'New films'; 2.10 'Film criticism in Britain'; 2.11 'Masculin féminin'; 2.12 'Far from Vietnam'; 2.13 'A Langlois unto himself'; 2.14 'Weekend in Paris'; 2.15 'The end of the Cannes party'; 2.16 'Minimal cinema: Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'; 2.17 'The Cossacks go in at Pesaro'; 2.18 'If with no buts'; 2.19 'Le Gai Savoir'; PART 3: 1970-1976; 3.1 'The varieties of tyranny'; 3.2 'Films to change the world?'; 3.3 'Fathers and sons'; 3.4 'Look back in shame'; 3.5 'Going between'; 3.6 'The international gravy train'; 3.7 'Visconti misses the gondola'; 3.8 Jean-Marie Straub (extracts); 3.9 'Daddy of 'em all'; 3.10 'The dragon…'; 3.11 'It takes two to tango'; 3.12 'How can we know the dancer from the dance?'; 3.13 'Hollywood embers'; 3.14 'Apple pie bedlam'; 3.15 'The Rules of the Game'; 3.16 'Hold the front page'; 3.17 'The Passenger'; 3.18 'Film of the century'; 3.19 'Memorandum on processes of prospection and selection'; 3.20 'Movies versus motion pictures'; PART 4: 1977-1983; 4.1 'Henri Langlois'; 4.2 'The Left Bank revisited'; 4.3 'The baggy-trousered philanthropist'; 4.4 'Robert Bresson'; 4.5 'Feuillade and the serial'; 4.6 'Jean Renoir to 1939'; 4.7 'London and New York'; 4.8 'Gross can be beautiful'; 4.9 'Biter bit'; 4.10 A Passion for Films (extracts); 4.11 'The first foreign-language film I ever saw…'; 4.12 'Melville'; PART 5: 1984-1989; 5.1 'Decades Never Start On Time' (extracts); 5.2 'The moral taste of Lotte Eisner'; 5.3 'Remembering Losey'; 5.4 'An Untitled Biography of Truffaut' (extract); Bibliography; Index; ;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the BFI
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 791.4375; Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century; Entertainment & Performing Arts; Film & Video/General; Film theory & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781844579310
• Related ISBNs: 184457931X; 9781844576258
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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