Cahiers du Cinema: 1960-1968: New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywood

Contents
......Page 5
Preface
......Page 8
Acknowledgments
......Page 11
Books Frequently Cited in the Text
......Page 13
Introduction: Cahiers du Cinema in the 1960s......Page 17
Part One: New Wave/French Cinema
......Page 41
Introduction: Re-thinking and Re-making French Cinema......Page 43
Luc Moullet: 'Jean-Luc Godard'......Page 51
Andre S. Labarthe: 'The Purest 
Vision: Les Bonnes Femmes'......Page 65
Andre S. Labarthe: 'Marienbad Year Zero'......Page 70
Jean-Luc Godard: 'From Critic to Film-Maker': Godard in interview ( extracts)
......Page 75
Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean Domarchi, Jean-Andre Fieschi.Pierre Kast, Andre S. Labarthe, Claude Oilier, Jacques Rivette, Francois Weyergans: iTheMisfortunes of Muriel......Page 84
Cahiers du Cinema: 'Twenty Years of French Cinema: the Best Frenc h
Films since the Liberation'......Page 98
Eric Rohmer: 'The Old and the New': Rohmer in interview with Jean-Claude Biette, Jacques Bontemps, Jean-Louis Comolli 
(extracts)......Page 100
Andre S. Labarthe: 'Pagnol'......Page 111
Jean-Louis Comolli: 'Polemic: Lelouch, or the Clear Conscience'......Page 116
Francois Truffaut: 'Evolution of the New Wave': Truffaut in interview with Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean Narboni 
(extracts)......Page 122
Part Two: American Cinema: Celebration
......Page 127
Introduction: The Apotheosis of 
mise en scene......Page 130
Fereydoun Hoveyda: 'Nicholas Ray's Reply: Party Girl'
......Page 139
Michel Mourlet: 'In Defence of Violence'......Page 149
Fereydoun Hoveyda: 'Sunspots'......Page 152
Michel Mourlet: 'The Beauty of Knowledge: Joseph Losey'......Page 163
Jean Douchet: 'Hitch and his Audience'......Page 167
Jean Douchet: 'A Laboratory Art: 
Blind Date'......Page 175
Part Three: American Cinema: Revaluation
......Page 180
Introduction: Re-thinking American Cinema......Page 182
Claude Chabrol, Jacques Doniol Valcroze,Jean-Luc Godard, Pierre Kast, Luc Moullet, Jacques Rivette, Francois Truffaut: 'Questions about American Cinema: A Discussion' 
(extract)......Page 189
Jean-Louis Comolli: 'The Ironical 
Howard Hawks'......Page 198
Claude Oilier: 'A King in New York: King Kong'......Page 204
Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Gerard Guegan, Michel Mardore, Claude Oilier, Andre Techine: 'Twenty Years On: A Discussion about American Cinema and the politiq
ue des auteurs'......Page 213
Jean-Louis Comolli: 'Notes on the 
New Spectator'......Page 227
Jean Narboni: 'Against the Clock: 
Red Line 7000'......Page 233
Part Four: Towards a New Cinema/New Criticism
......Page 237
Introduction: Re-thinking the Function of Cinema and Criticism
......Page 239
Bernard Dart: 'Towards a Brechtian Criticism of Cinema'......Page 252
Fereydoun Hoveyda: 'Cinema verite, or Fantastic Realism'......Page 264
Fereydoun Hoveyda: 'Self-Criticism'......Page 273
Louis Marcorelles: 'The Leacock 
Experiment'......Page 280
Jean-Andre Fieschi: 'Neo-neorealism: Bandits at
 Orgosolo'......Page 287
Roland Barthes: 'Towards a Semiotics of Cinema': Barthes in interview with Michel Delahaye, 
Jacques Rivette......Page 292
Jean-Andre Fieschi: 'The Falling  Sickness: Fists in the Pocket'
......Page 302
Jean-Louis Comolli: 'A Morality of 
Economics'......Page 306
Jean-Luc Godard: 'Struggling on Two Fronts': Godard in interview with Jacques Bontemps, Jean-Louis Comolli, Michel Oelahaye, JeanNarboni 
(extracts)......Page 310
Jean Narboni: 'Towards 
Impertinence'......Page 316
Jacques Aumont: 'Several Routes to a Reading: Switchboard Operator'......Page 319
Cahiers du Cinema: 'Editorial: The Langlo
is Affair......Page 323
Cahiers du Cinema: 'Editorial: The Estates General of the French Cinema'......Page 325
Cahiers du Cinema: 'Editorial: 
Changes in Cahiers'......Page 327
Jean-Louis Comolli: 'Postscript: 
Hour of the Wolf......Page 329
Jacques Rivette: 'Time Overflowing': Rivette in interview with Jacques Aumont, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean Narboni, Sylvie Pierre (extracts)
......Page 333
Sylvie Pierre, Jean-Louis Comolli: 
'Two Faces of Faces'......Page 340
Appendix 1: Cahiers du Cinema Annual Best Films Listings 1960-8......Page 344
Appendix 2: Guide to Cahiers du Cinema Nos 103-207, January 1960-December 1968, in English 
translation......Page 351
Appendix 3: Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s and the 1970s
......Page 370
Index of Names and Film Titles......Page 373