Title: <i>Amour Fou</i> and the <i>Informe</i>: Jacques Prévert, the Popular Front, and the Forestalling of a People to Come
Abstract:Focusing specifically on Jacques Prévert's screenplays for Jean Renoir (Le Crime de M. Lange) and Marcel Carné (Drôle de drame and Les Enfants du paradis), this essay explores the legacy of the Surrea...Focusing specifically on Jacques Prévert's screenplays for Jean Renoir (Le Crime de M. Lange) and Marcel Carné (Drôle de drame and Les Enfants du paradis), this essay explores the legacy of the Surrealist Movement—particularly Georges Bataille's advocacy of amour fou and the informe—on the French political left's difficulties in generating a viable politics of collective resistance during the period of the Popular Front and the immediate aftermath of Vichy defeatism.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-03-15
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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