Rififi

French Film Guide

AvAlastair Phillips

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. Phillips also examines the film's innovative narrative construction and use of sound, its performance style and mise-en-scene, and discusses the film's legacy, showing how even today, the term 'Rififi' remains a byword for both criminal glamor and the enduring virtues of French popular classical film making.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-12-04
Mått:138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:180 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ciné-File French Film Guides
Antal sidor:136
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781848850552

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The author of this title is associate professor, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick. His publications include "City of Darkness, City of Light", "Emigre Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939", "100 Film Noirs" (with Jim Hillier), "Journeys of Desire", and "European Actors in Hollywood" (with Ginette Vincendeau).

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgementsSynopsisI: IntroductionII: The Route to RififiA Cosmopolitan LifeHollywood and Film NoirThe Politics of ExileThe Tradition of French Film NoirAuguste le Breton and the Série NoireProduction HistoryIII: Reading RififiBeginningsDu rififi chez les hommes and the Aesthetics of the Heist ThrillerSpace and Genre: the NightclubSpace and Genre: the CityMen and TroubleA Transnational Film Noir?IV: Reviewing RififiA Surprise Success‘A Film Without Indulgence’The Politics of RealismAudiences, Trade and CultureV: Reviving RififiAfter Du rififi chez les hommesInfluencesThe Rififi BrandRififi ReturnsAppendix 1: CreditsAppendix 2: Jules Dassin FilmographyAppendix 3: Auguste le Breton FilmographyAppendix 4: Films referred to in the bookAppendix 5: ‘Rififi à travers le monde’ BibliographyAppendix 6: Select Bibliography