Les Diaboliques

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252030893

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Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) by Susan Hayward Pdf

"Les Diaboliques" (The Fiends ) was a top grossing film in 1955. Clouzot shrouded his film in mystery, beseeching his audience not to give away the ending. He also radically changed the original story of Boileau and Narcejeac's novel ("Celle qui n'etait plus" ), heterosexualising the original lesbian plot. His film demonstrates how to imply, rather than show, horror, keeping the spectator in a state of continued suspense, only releasing us in the few final frames. Fifty years later, "Les Diaboliques" still intrigues perhaps due to its excessive ambiguities and numerous plot twists that make it a film noir to end all films noirs, and not least the great performance of Simone Signoret. In this enjoyable and challenging Cine-File, Susan Hayward, leading writer on French cinema, sets "Les Diaboliques" against the political culture of its time and demonstrates the importance of Clouzot as a master of the thriller genre. She gives an illuminating in-depth textual analysis of the film and presents a comparison with its US remake which, juxtaposed with the original film book, highlights the great staying power of Clouzot's version, still a popular film with international audiences half a century after its premiere."

Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:462804182

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Weird Women by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Pdf

Author : Pierre Boileau,Thomas Narcejac
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782270812

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She Who Was No More by Pierre Boileau,Thomas Narcejac Pdf

A couple's murderous plot goes horribly awry in this French noir classic that later inspired the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece Psycho Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne—an ambitious doctor—and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub. But before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse mysteriously disappears. So begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity. This classic of French noir fiction was adapted for the screen by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques (The Devils), starring Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, the film which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A second movie version, Diabolique, followed in 1996, starring Sharon Stone.

Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher : Buccaneer Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039923995

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Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Pdf

Author : Andre Bazin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136634222

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Bazin at Work by Andre Bazin Pdf

Bazin's impact on film art, as theorist and critic, is considered to be greater than that of any single director, actor, or producer. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Bazin at Work is the first English collection of disparate Bazin writings since the appearance of the second volume of What Is Cinema? in 1971. It includes work from Cahiers le cinema (which he founded and which is the most influential single critical periodical in the history of the cinema) and Esprit. He addresses filmmakers including Rossellini, Eisenstein, Pagnol, and Capra and well-known films including La Strada, Citizen Kane, Scarface, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Author : D'aurevilly Jules Barbey D'aurevilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8726765241

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Les Diaboliques by D'aurevilly Jules Barbey D'aurevilly Pdf

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719070147

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Henri-Georges Clouzot by Christopher Lloyd Pdf

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a filmmaker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystère Picasso).

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816634572

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Framed by Judith Mayne Pdf

In Framed, Judith Mayne, a respected critic whose reach extends from film, literature, and feminism to the culture at large, offers a sustained exploration of feminist approaches to film and mass culture, with a particular focus on how contradiction informs feminism in productive and challenging ways. Accessible and engaging, Framed will be of interest to anyone who enjoys investigating women's roles in the creation of mass culture. -- from back cover.

Author : Allan H. Pasco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000134742

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The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story by Allan H. Pasco Pdf

The 19th-Century French Short Story, by eminent scholar, Allan H. Pasco, seeks to offer a more comprehensive view of the definition, capabilities, and aims of short stories. The book examines general instances of the genre specifically in 19th-century France by recognizing their cultural context, demonstrating how close analysis of texts effectively communicates their artistry, and arguing for a distinction between middling and great short stories. Where previous studies have examined the writers of short stories individually, The 19th-Century French Short Story takes a broader lens to the subject, and looks at short story writers as they grapple with the artistic, ethical, and social concerns of their day. Making use of French short story masterpieces, with reinforcing comparisons to works from other traditions, this book offers the possibility of a more adequate appreciation of the under-valued short story genre.

Author : David Baguley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1546 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815625669

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A Critical Bibliography of French Literature by David Baguley Pdf

Author : Edmund G. Bansak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786417099

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Fearing the Dark by Edmund G. Bansak Pdf

Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) established Val Lewton's hauntingly graceful style where suggestion was often used in place of explicit violence. His stylish B thrillers were imitated by a generation of filmmakers such as Richard Wallace, William Castle, and even Walt Disney in his animated Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Through interviews with many of Lewton's associates (including his wife and son) and extensive research, his life and output are thoroughly examined.

Author : Anne Mullen,Emer O'Beirne
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9042012331

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Crime Scenes by Anne Mullen,Emer O'Beirne Pdf

The essays in this collection are based on papers given at a conference on detective fiction in European culture, held at the University of Exeter in September 1997. The range of topics covered is designed to show not only the presence and variety of narratives of detection across different European countries and their different media (although there is a predictable emphasis on the novel). It also illustrates the fertility of the genre, its openness to a spectrum of readings with different emphases, formal as well as thematic. Approaches to detective fiction have often tended to confine them-selves to 'symptomatic' interpretation, where details of the fictional world represented are used to diagnose a specific set of social preoccupations and priorities operative at the time of writing. Such approaches can yield valuable insights. Nonetheless there is a risk of limiting the value of the genre as a whole solely to its role as a mirror held up to society. In this perspective, issues of structure and style are sidelined, or, if addressed, are praised to the extent that they approach invisibility -- concision, spareness, realism are the qualities singled out for praise. The genre also gives much scope for formal innovation -- and indeed has often attracted already established 'mainstream' writers and filmmakers for just this reason. The eclectic diversity of the detective narratives considered in this volume reveal the malleability of the traditional constraints of the genre. The essays bear rich testimony to the value of considering the interplay of thematic and structural issues, even in the most apparently unselfconscious and popular (or populist) forms of narrative. The patterns of reassurance, the triumph of intellect and the ordered, rational world 'of old' are now challenged by the need to foreground the problems, ambiguities and uncertainties of the self and of society. The plurality of meanings and the antithetical imperatives explored in these detective narratives confirm that the most recent forms of the genre are not mere palimpsests of their 'golden age' precursors. The subversion of traditional expectations and the implementation of diverse stylistic devices take the genre beyond mere homage and pastiche. The role of the reader/spectator and critic in conferring meaning is a crucial one.

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857714336

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Les Diaboliques by Susan Hayward Pdf

Hugely enjoyable and exciting, long awaited book by top world authority on French cinema. This is the first book to focus on this very contemporary film. "Les Diaboliques" is often shown and is easily available on DVD and video "Les Diaboliques" was a top grossing film in 1955. Clouzot shrouded his film in mystery and also radically changed the original story of the novel, heterosexualising the original lesbian plot. "Les Diaboliques" still intrigues perhaps due to its excessive ambiguities and numerous plot twists that make it a 'film noir' to end all 'films noir', and not least the great performance of Simone Signoret. In this enjoyable and challenging "Cine-File", Hayward sets "Les Diaboliques" against the political culture of its time and demonstrates the importance of Clouzot as a master of the thriller genre. She gives an illuminating in-depth textual analysis of the film and presents a comparison with its US remake.

Author : Corry Cropper
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803218994

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Playing at Monarchy by Corry Cropper Pdf

Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, M(r)rim(r)e, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France, while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France, Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today

Author : Charles Derry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786456956

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Dark Dreams 2.0 by Charles Derry Pdf

Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War. It divides modern horror into three varieties (psychological, demonic and apocalyptic) and demonstrates how horror cinema represents the popular expression of everyday fears while revealing the forces that influence American ideological and political values. Directors given a close reading include Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Haneke, Robert Aldrich, Mel Gibson and George A. Romero. Additional material discusses postmodern remakes, horror franchises and Asian millennial horror. This book also contains more than 950 frame grabs and a very extensive filmography.