{"product_id":"jean-renoir-pb-9780306804656","title":"Jean Renoir PB","description":"This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; Andr  Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and Fran ois Truffaut, the pioneer of \u003ci\u003ela nouvelle vague.\u003c\/i\u003e Bazin left this examination of Renoir's films unfinished when he died in 1958; Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cin ma\u003c\/i\u003e regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoir's\u003ci\u003e oeuvre, \u003c\/i\u003e from the avant-garde fantasy of \u003ci\u003eLa Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, \u003c\/i\u003e through the epic humanism of \u003ci\u003eGrand Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of the Game, \u003c\/i\u003e to the quiet grace of \u003ci\u003eThe River\u003c\/i\u003e and the profound theatricality of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Coach.\u003c\/i\u003e Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoir's work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elaborated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndré Bazin (1918-1958)\u003c\/b\u003e was a film critic for \u003ci\u003eLe Parisien Libéré, \u003c\/i\u003e the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinéma, \u003c\/i\u003e and director of cultural services at the \u003ci\u003eInstitut des Hautes Etudes Cinématiques. \u003c\/i\u003eConsidered a father figure by the filmmakers of the \"new wave\" of French cinema, he wrote dozens of important theoretical and critical essays on film, which are collected in the two volumes of \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Cinema?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410059792658,"sku":"9780306804656","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d3bd5ba-47b1-4077-8ef6-809e64c4b960.jpg?v=1729300756","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jean-renoir-pb-9780306804656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}