When it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Its sudden shifts of tone and mood, its willful play with genre stereotypes, and its hilarious in-jokes clearly signaled that Jean-Luc Godard's equally innovative Breathless was not a fluke. The two films heralded the arrival of the so-called New Wave, sharing with other New Wave films an insistence on low-budget, location shooting and, above all, on cinema as the personal statement of an author. These films had a tremendous impact on all filmmaking. Peter Brunette's introduction to this book gives us new insight into the film, based in part on revisualizing it in terms of recent postmodern and poststructuralist thinking. He argues, in effect, that Truffaut was one of the directors who paved the way for a postmodern aesthetic. The volume also contains a complete and accurate continuity script of the film (based on the authoritative, wide-screen version), a series of interviews with Truffaut (including one by Hélène Laroche Davis, previously unpublished), a large number of reviews and essays, a filmography, and selected bibliography. 
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When it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Peter Brunette's introduction to this book gives us new insight into the film, based in part on revisualizing it in terms of recent postmodern and poststructuralist thinking.
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Introduction -  Shoot the Piano Player as a postmodernist text / Peter Brunette Fraṅois Truffaut : A Biographical Sketch Shoot the Piano Player - Credits and cast The continuity script Notes on the continuity script Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries -  Interviews :  Interview with Fraṅois Truffaut / Ȟl̈ne Laroche Davis I wanted to treat Shoot the Piano Player like a tale by Perrault : An interview with Fraṅois Truffaut / Yvonne Baby Adapting Shooting the Piano Player / Fraṅois Truffaut Should films be politically committed? / Fraṅois Truffaut From an interview with Fraṅois Truffaut Reviews :  Ciňma 60 / Alain Vargas Ciňma 61 / Marcel Martin The New Yorker / Edith Oliver Variety / "Mosk" Sight and Sound / Peter John Dyer Film Culture / Pauline Kael The Village Voice / Andrew Sarris The New York Times / Bosley Crowther Esquire / Dwight Macdonald Commentaries : Cinema of appearance / Gabriel Pearson and Eric Rhode "Are women magic?" / Annette Insdorf The existential play in Truffaut's early films / Allen Thiher Truffaut, Godard, and the genre film as self-conscious art / Leo Braudy The statement of genres / James Monaco Tirez sur le Pianiste / C.G. Crisp Tirez sur le Pianiste / Don Allen The sensitive spot / Jean-Paul Ṯṟk On Shoot the Piano Player / Graham Petrie Through the looking glass / Roger Greenspun The technique of Shoot the Piano Player / Karel Reisz and Gavin Miller Filmography and Bibliography -  Truffaut Filmography, 1954-1983 Selected Bibliography
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ISBN
9780813519425
Publisert
1993-05-01
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Rutgers University Press
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425 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
20 mm
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G, UU, UP, P, 01, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Peter Brunette is Professor of English and Film Studies at George Mason University. He is the author of Roberto Rossellini and co-author of Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory .