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François Truffaut: The Lost Secret

François Truffaut: The Lost Secret

by Alistair Fox (Author), Anne Gillain (Author), Alistair Fox (Author), Anne Gillain (Author)

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Synopsis

For Francois Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret is considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films. Taking a psycho-biographical approach, Gillain shows how Truffaut's creative impulse was anchored in his personal experience of a traumatic childhood that left him lonely and emotionally deprived. In a series of brilliant, nuanced readings of each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary memories arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession of motifs that are repeated from film to film, but also govern every aspect of his mise en scene and cinematic technique.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 374
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09 Jul 2013
ISBN 10: 0253008395
ISBN 13: 9780253008398
Book Overview: Considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films

Media Reviews
In addition to its trenchant anatomizing of Truffaut, this work is an excellent examination of the process of creation. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *
Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain's work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker. * Booklist *
In her brilliant book, Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret . . . Gillain serves us with a delicious reexamination of someone's work that will make us want to sit down and take in all of Truffaut's wonderful filmography at once. * PopMatters *
Gillain's preface is succinct, lucid and illuminating. * Spectator *
Author Bio

Anne Gillain is Professor Emerita at Wellesley College and is known for her work in French cinema, particularly the films of Francois Truffaut. She is author of Le Cinema selon Francois Truffaut and The 400 Blows.

Alistair Fox is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago. He is author of Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (IUP, 2011).