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Auteur meets genre: Rohmer and the rom-com
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Harrod, Mary (2014) Auteur meets genre: Rohmer and the rom-com. In: Anderst, Leah, (ed.) The films of Éric Rohmer : French new wave to old master. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 101-113. ISBN 9781137010995
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Abstract
Eric Rohmer’s influence on filmic chroniclers of love within the auteur
canon is widely recognized. This essay seeks to situate his oeuvre within a different cinematic historiography: that of genre cinema in general and romantic comedy specifically. In so doing it answers Celestino Deleyto’s call for a reappraisal of films usually seen as outside mainstream genericity from this perspective.1 Given that genre is a site of exchange between filmic institutions and audiences, both of which—even in the case of the more specialized audience targeted by Rohmer—interact with culture more broadly, the point of such an approach is to examine the role played by Rohmer’s work in mediating historically and locally specific notions about coupling and romance. In other words, this analysis will reinsert into a particular social context films that have most frequently been understood to exist as “pure
cinema,” outside history
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave MacMillan | ||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||
ISBN: | 9781137010995 | ||||
Book Title: | The films of Éric Rohmer : French new wave to old master | ||||
Editor: | Anderst, Leah | ||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 254 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 101-113 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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