The Films of Eric Rohmer: French New Wave to Old Master

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Eric Rohmer and Me....Pages 7-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Eric Rohmer and the Legacy of Cinematic Realism....Pages 23-31
Practicing What He Preaches? Continuities and Discontinuities in Rohmer’s Early Film Criticism and His Conte d’automne ....Pages 33-47
Ma Nuit chez Maud and the Moral Imagination: Rhymes, Symmetries, and Variations on an Ethical Theme....Pages 49-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Fall into Words: From Contes des quatre saisons to L’Anglaise et le Duc ....Pages 65-72
Eric Rohmer’s Magnetic Fluid....Pages 73-88
Imagination and Grace: Rohmer’s Contes des quatre saisons ....Pages 89-99
Auteur Meets Genre: Rohmer and the Rom-Com....Pages 101-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Rohmer/Politics: From Royalism to Ecology....Pages 117-130
On the Class Character of Desire: Romantic Heroics in the Contes moraux ....Pages 131-146
Rohmer’s Realism: Women on the Border of What Is and What Might Be....Pages 147-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
The Changing Landscape and Rohmer’s Temptation of Architecture....Pages 161-175
Walking in the City: Paris in the Films of Eric Rohmer....Pages 177-190
Rohmer’s Poetics of Placelessness....Pages 191-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Eric Rohmer, Historiographer....Pages 205-214
Eric Rohmer’s Talking Heads: Listening to the Classical Text in La Bruyère ....Pages 215-228
Triple Agent: Eric Rohmer and the Tumult of the Interwar Years....Pages 229-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-254