TY - BOOK ID - 52541312 TI - Balzac Reframed : The Classical and Modern Faces of Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette PY - 2019 SN - 3030306143 3030306151 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - New wave films KW - New wave (Motion pictures) KW - New wave cinema KW - Nouvelle vague (Motion pictures) KW - Nouvelles vagues (Motion pictures) KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures. KW - Adaptation Studies. KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52541312 AB - This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honoré de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film criticism, which gradually led to the establishment of a common aesthetic vision of cinema (the “politique des auteurs”), owes more to Balzac and the nineteenth-century novel than to any intellectual trend of the immediate post-war period. By considering the films of Rohmer and Rivette as an extension of their writings (essays, film reviews, scriptwriting, novels and interviews), this volume analyses the changing and sometimes opposed ways in which they applied Balzacian principles and themes to their cinematic practice. Essentially, it understands the exchange between art forms, past traditions and contemporaneous currents as the overlooked yet common thread that links these three authors, through their own re-appropriations of classical and romantic aesthetics in their explorations of modern French society. In doing so, this study provides further nuance to the “conservative” versus “progressist” rupture that is generally assumed between the two directors, and offers an innovative reading of The Human Comedy in the light of post-war ideas on authorship, film adaptation, classicism and modernism. ER -