21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Lecture 15 - Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism

1. French Film
   • A parallel history
   • Film theory
     
     
2. Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
   • 1926  Nana (Zola novel)
         28  The Little Match Girl          
         31   La Chienne
         32   Boudu Saved from Drowning
         34   Madame Bovary (Flaubert novel)
         35   Toni
         37   Grand Illusion
         39   Rules of the Game
         50   The River
     
     
3. Poetic Realism
   • Forerunner: Jean Vigo (1905-34)
   • Key Features
   • André Bazin (1918-58) on Renoir
     
     
4. Two Examples:
   • The Ending of Boudu
   • Dinner in prison: Grand IIlusion
     
     
5. Visual Style as Moral Vision