The Films of Eric Rohmer

Introduction; Leah Anderst 1. Evening with Rohmer; Andre Aciman PART I: ROHMER: CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER 2. Eric Rohmer and the Legacy of Cinematic Realism; Tom Gunning 3. Practicing What He Preaches? Continuities and Discontinuities in Rohmer's Early Film Criticism and his Conte d'automne; T. Jefferson Kline 4. Ma Nuit chez Maud and the Moral Imagination: Rhymes, Symmetries, and Variations on an Ethical Theme; Matthew Thorpe PART II: NARRATION, FRAMES, GENRES 5. The Fall into Words: From Contes des quatre saisons to L'Anglaise et le duc; Noel Herpe and translated by Timothy E. Wilson 6. Eric Rohmer's Magnetic Fluid; Dudley Andrew 7. Imagination and Grace: Rohmer's Contes des quatre saisons; Keith Tester 8. Auteur Meets Genre: Rohmer and the Rom-Com; Mary Harrod PART III: POLITICS, GENDER, AND CLASS 9. Rohmer/Politics: From Royalism to Ecology; Antoine de Baecque and translated by Nathalie Fouyer 10. On the Class Character of Desire: Romantic Heroics in the Contes moraux; Derek Schilling 11. Rohmer's Realism: Women on the Border of What Is and What Might Be; Aimee Israel-Pelletier PART IV: ARCHITECTURE, PLACES, AND SPACE 12. The Changing Landscape and Rohmer's Temptation of Architecture; Ivone Margulies 13. Walking in the City: Paris in the Films of Eric Rohmer; Fiona Handyside 14. Rohmer's Poetics of Placelessness; Leah Anderst PART V: ADAPTING HISTORY AND LITERATURE 15. Eric Rohmer, Historiographer; Jerry W. Carlson 16. Eric Rohmer's Talking Heads: Listening to the Classical Text in La Bruyere; Mark Cohen 17. Triple Agent: Eric Rohmer and the Tumult of the Inter-war Years; Pierre Lethier