T. Jefferson Kline is a Professor of French at Boston University where he served as Chair of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (1979-88) and more recently received a Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching. His publications include Bertolucci's Dream Loom, I film di Bertolucci, Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema and various edited works and essays on literature.

"T. Jefferson Kline's recent book is an interesting, instructive, and at times intriguing Read. . . Jean Vigo's L'Atalante is presented as an excellent example of how poetry can be achieved through cinematography." (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1 September 2011) "Cinema historians or those specialists in film studies interested in the links between film and history may find something still to be desired from these combinations, even if the analysis offered does shed quite a different light on some of the most famous films of French cinema." (FH, 2 June 2011)"In Unraveling French Cinema by T. Jefferson Kline, the focus (and astoundingly detailed focus it is too) is on the complexities of this strain of cinema divided appropriately into eight sections accompanied by in-depth examinations of ten films." (M/C Reviews, August 20,  2010)"I enjoyed this book very much and found it to be challenging, rewarding and worthwhile. Kline has an engaging prose style and clearly knows his stuff. Envy his students." (Jildy Sauce, April 2010)

• Acknowledgments viIntroduction 11 Cinema and/as Poetry: L’Atalante’s Apples as Poems 132 Cinema and the Real: Renoir’s Rules 353 Cinema and/as Crime: Breaking the Law in The Children of Paradise, Pickpocket, and Breathless 544 Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film 835 Cinema and/as Dream: Truffaut’s “Royal Road” to Adele H. 1096 Cinema and/as Hypnosis: Jacquot’s Seventh Heaven 1327 Cinema and/as Mourning: Anne Fontaine’s How I Killed My Father 1488 Cinema and/as Terror: Michael Haneke’s Caché 1659 Beautiful Fragments: Discontinuity and the French Cinema 179Notes 193References 212Index 219