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He uncovers the wide range of the literary and cultural texts—American films, classical mythology, French literature, and a variety of Russian, Norwegian, German, and English writers and philosophers—as \"screened\" in seven films: Truffaut's Jules et Jim; Malle's Les Amants; Resnais's L'Année dernière à Marienbad; Chabrol's Le Beau Serge; Rohmer's Ma Nuit chez Maud; Bresson's Pickpocket; and Godard's Pierrot le fou.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575922991377,"sku":"GOR004458523","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801842670.jpg?v=1751201592"},{"product_id":"agnes-varda-book-t-jefferson-kline-9781496802491","title":"Agnes Varda","description":"Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the \"\"Mother of the New Wave\"\" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the two later films that launched the New Wave, Truffaut's 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless. In a low-budget film, using (as yet) unknown actors and working entirely outside the prevailing studio system, Varda completely abandoned the \"\"tradition of quality\"\" that Truffaut was at that very time condemning in the pages of Cahiers du cinema. Her work, however, was not \"\"discovered\"\" until after Truffaut and Godard had broken onto the scene in 1959. Varda's next film, Cleo from 5 to 7, attracted considerably more attention and was selected as France's official entry for the Festival in Cannes. 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I try to show everything that happens in such a way and ask questions so as to leave the viewers free to make their own judgments.\"\" The panoply of interviews here emphasize her core belief that \"\"we never stop learning\"\" and reveal the wealth of ways to answer her questions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608604418321,"sku":"GOR013751131","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50293853421841,"sku":"CIN1496802497G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326390993169,"sku":"CIN1496802497VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52355203793169,"sku":"NLS9781496802491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53078551626001,"sku":"NGR9781496802491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1496802497.jpg?v=1763477356"},{"product_id":"screening-the-text-book-t-jefferson-kline-9780801874314","title":"Screening the Text","description":"The French New Wave directors of the 1950s rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature and exploded traditional methods of film narrative, embracing fragmentation and alienation. 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