Shoot the Piano Player: François Truffaut, Director

Shoot the Piano Player: François Truffaut, Director
ISBN-10
081351942X
ISBN-13
9780813519425
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Author
Francois Truffaut

Description

Screenplay of 1960 French film with analysis. The film shocked and delighted critics and audiences with its sudden shifts of tone and mood, its willful play with grenre stereotypes, and its hilarious in-jokes. Along with Godard's Breathless, the two films heralded the arrival of the so-called New Wave of low-budget, shooting location and cinema as the personal statement of an author. Truffaut was one of the directors who paved the way for a postmodern aesthetic.

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