Jean Renoir
Author: Raymond Durgnat
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780520022836
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Renoir, My Father
Author: Jean Renoir
Publisher: London : Collins
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780316740104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it " remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.
Jean Renoir: A Biography
Author: Pascal Merigeau
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 1541
ISBN-13: 0762456086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in France in 2012, Pascal Mégeau's definitive biography of legendary film director Jean Renoir is a landmark work-the winner of a Prix Goncourt, France's top literary achievement. Now available in the English language for the first time, Jean Renoir: A Biography, is the definitive study of one of the most fascinating and creative artistic figures of the twentieth century. The French filmmaker made more than forty films from the silent era to the late '60s and today he is revered by filmmakers and seen by many as one of the greatest of all time. Renoir made acclaimed movies in France, America, India, and Italy and became a writer during the last part of his life. An estimated 75 percent of the book details previously unknown information about the filmmaker, including Renoir's close affiliation with Communism in the '30s (when he was the Party's official director) and his work with the fascist regimes during World War II; his previously uncredited Hollywood film, The Amazing Mrs. Holiday; and new information on the making of his most famous films. Drawing from unpublished or little known sources, this biography is a completely fresh approach to the maker of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, redefining the very function of the movie director and simultaneously recounting the history of a century.
Renoir on Renoir
Author: Jean Renoir
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521385930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a 1990 collection of interviews and essays by the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir.
My Life And My Films
Author: Jean Renoir
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1991-08-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780306804571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir—the boy who became the director many consider the greatest in history. François Truffaut called him “an infallible filmmaker . . . Renoir has succeeded in creating the most alive films in the history of cinema, films which still breathe forty years after they were made.” In this book, Jean Renoir(1894-1979)presents his world, from his father's Montemarte studio to his own travels in Paris, Hollywood, and India. Here are tantalizing secrets about his greatest films—The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion, The River, A Day in the Country, La Bête Humaine, Toni. But most of all, Renoir shows us himself: a man if dazzling simplicity, immense creativity, and profound humanity.
Jean Renoir
Author: Martin O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2000-10-20
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780719050633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Renoir is one of the most important figures in French cinema. This is an eminently accessible and original analysis of all his sound films, including those he made in Hollywood. Bringing new light on some of the director's most celebrated films, this lucid account traces his output from the silent period to the age of television, tying his work into a fast-shifting, socio-historical context. Giving an incisive and illuminating account of critical debates concerning Renoir, and focusing on hitherto neglected areas such as gender, nation and ethnicity the book asks us to rethink our understanding of Renoir's political commitment.
The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir
Author: Christopher Faulkner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1400854733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Jean Renoir
Author: Jean Renoir
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781578067312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected interviews with one of France's most loved and respected filmmakers
Jean Renoir
Author: André Bazin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1992-03-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780306804656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and François Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle vague. Bazin left this examination of Renoir's films unfinished when he died in 1958; Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other Cahiers du Cinéma regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoir's oeuvre, from the avant-garde fantasy of La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, through the epic humanism of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, to the quiet grace of The River and the profound theatricality of The Golden Coach. Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoir's work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elaborated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.
Raphael to Renoir
Author: Stijn Alsteens
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1588393070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The works from the Bonna Collection are illustrated in color, and whenever possible, at their actual sizes. They are arranged chronologically by the artist's date of birth and are grouped according to the main artistic schools. This volume is introduced by an interview with Jean Bonna by George Goldner. Each drawing is then described in an entry, many of which have comparative illustrations that shed further light on individual works."--BOOK JACKET.
