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The origins and uses of love in the cinema of Francois Truffaut Harris, Mark Robert
Abstract
The Origins and Uses of Love in the Cinema of Francois Truffaut attempts to explain how the Nouvelle Vague filmmaker's passions and enthusiasms created both the substance and aesthetic of his work. For the sake of concision, this study has been restricted primarily to the analysis of eight key films in the director's work. These seven features and one short have been further sub-divided into three "blocs": Les 400 coups, Antoine et Colette, Baisers voles. Domicile conjugale, and L'Amour en fuite making up the set centred on the adventures of Antoine Doinel; Jules et Jim and Les_ Deux anglaises et le continent constituting the diptych inspired by the novels of Henri-Pierre Roche; and Tirez sur le pianiste, the sole monadal entry, representing Truffaut's attraction to Hollywood genre cinema. Each of the director's four principal passions are granted a self-explicating chapter: Love of Children, Love of Film, Love of Literature, and Love of Love. In the first of these thematic chapters, it is pointed out that Truffaut's love of children was counterbalanced by an equally profound hatred for the objective conditions of childhood. Love of Film encompasses film criticism as well as film-making; it shows how Truffaut's formative viewing experiences subsequently influenced his choice of subject matter. Love of .literature places special emphasis on the works of Honore de Balzac and Henri-Pierre Roche, The Antoine Doinel films, it is argued, are essentially a mini-Comedie humaine. Love of Love encompasses both romance and friendship. How Truffaut could glory in the pleasures of heterosexual love without really believing in its permanence proves pivotal in this chapter. How all these "loves" were bounded by the director's love/hate relationship to time is discussed in the thesis conclusion.
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The origins and uses of love in the cinema of Francois Truffaut
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University of British Columbia
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1992
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The Origins and Uses of Love in the Cinema of Francois
Truffaut attempts to explain how the Nouvelle Vague filmmaker's
passions and enthusiasms created both the substance
and aesthetic of his work. For the sake of concision, this
study has been restricted primarily to the analysis of eight
key films in the director's work. These seven features and
one short have been further sub-divided into three "blocs":
Les 400 coups, Antoine et Colette, Baisers voles. Domicile
conjugale, and L'Amour en fuite making up the set centred on
the adventures of Antoine Doinel; Jules et Jim and Les_ Deux
anglaises et le continent constituting the diptych inspired
by the novels of Henri-Pierre Roche; and Tirez sur le
pianiste, the sole monadal entry, representing Truffaut's
attraction to Hollywood genre cinema. Each of the director's
four principal passions are granted a self-explicating
chapter: Love of Children, Love of Film, Love of Literature,
and Love of Love. In the first of these thematic chapters,
it is pointed out that Truffaut's love of children was
counterbalanced by an equally profound hatred for the
objective conditions of childhood. Love of Film encompasses
film criticism as well as film-making; it shows how Truffaut's
formative viewing experiences subsequently influenced his
choice of subject matter. Love of .literature places special
emphasis on the works of Honore de Balzac and Henri-Pierre
Roche, The Antoine Doinel films, it is argued, are essentially
a mini-Comedie humaine. Love of Love encompasses both romance
and friendship. How Truffaut could glory in the pleasures
of heterosexual love without really believing in its
permanence proves pivotal in this chapter. How all these
"loves" were bounded by the director's love/hate relationship
to time is discussed in the thesis conclusion.
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eng
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2009-01-07
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0098963
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University of British Columbia
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1992-05
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Graduate
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