Thinking Cinema with Proust

Patrick ffrench

Thinking Cinema with Proust

Patrick ffrench

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Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist

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22 August 2018 • 218pp

ISBN: 978-1-781886-35-9 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

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How can Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu prompt us to re-imagine the cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a ‘merely’ cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of Thinking Cinema with Proust is that the Recherche can provide a powerful catalyst for re-thinking the cinema, and that the 'structural absence' of cinema from Proust's novel is rich in implications. Drawing on a complex terrain of intersections and overlaps between the experience of the spectator and that of Proust’s narrator and reader, the book is focused around a series of motifs – reverie, the camera obscura, the magic lantern, projection, gesture and ‘screen memory' – which enable a fluid movement back and forth between Proust and film theory.

Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King’s College London.

Reviews:

‘ffrench masterfully argues that Proust’s novel undoes our confidence in the objectivity of memory and of history... This brief account cannot do justice to the intricacies of ffrench’s book, which will serve as a valuable resource to scholars of the novel and of the cinema.’ — Patrick M. Bray, French Studies 73.4, October 2019, 663-64 (full text online)
‘Thinking cinema ‘with and through Proust’, this brilliant book unravels manifold new connections, resonances, and echoes across diverse fields of knowledge, demonstrating amply that the chapter of Proust’s relation to cinema is far from being closed.’ — Marion Schmid, Modern Language Review 115.4, October 2020, 922-23 (full text online)

Contents:

ix-ix	Acknowledgements Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.3	Cite
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x-x	Abbreviations Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.4	Cite
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1-7	Introduction Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.5	Cite
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8-49	Chapter 1 Reverie in A Dark Room Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.6	Cite
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50-65	Chapter 2 Camera Obscura Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.7	Cite
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66-101	Chapter 3 Proust’s Projections Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.8	Cite
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102-118	Chapter 4 the Cinema of Montjouvain Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.9	Cite
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119-156	Chapter 5 Theory of Gesture Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.10	Cite
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157-188	Chapter 6 Screen Memories/screen Histories Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.11	Cite
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189-192	Conclusion Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.12	Cite
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193-201	Bibliography Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.13	Cite
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202-208	Index Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.14	Cite
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ffrench, Patrick, Thinking Cinema with Proust, Moving Image, 7 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2018)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Patrick ffrench, Thinking Cinema with Proust, Moving Image, 7 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2018), p. 21.

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ffrench, Patrick. 2018. Thinking Cinema with Proust, Moving Image, 7 (Cambridge: Legenda)

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