Alain Robbe-Grillet

Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the present, the book traces lines of influence and continuity throughout his work which is shown to exhibit a consistent preoccupation with an identifiable body of themes, motifs and structures. Close readings of all the films are skilfully combined with a thematic approach, ranging across the entire filmic corpus. The book also exceptionally contains chapters on cinematography and technique. Ultimately, this lucid, comprehensive and fascinating study shows Robbe-Grillet's contribution to the evolution of the cinematic art both in France and internationally to have been considerably more important than previously acknowledged.

John Phillips is Emeritus Professor of French at London Metropolitan University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.

List of Plates * Series Editors’ Foreword * Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Birth of a film-maker: L’Année dernière à Marienbad * Sight and sound: harmony in counterpoint? * Homo ludens: L’Homme qui ment, L’Eden et après, N a pris les dés,  Le Jeu avec le feu, Un Bruit qui rend fou
 * Beginnings and endings: orientalism and the erotic in L’Immortelle and C’est Gradiva Qui Vous Appelle * Sado-eroticism: Trans-Europ-Express, L’Eden et après, and Glissements progressifs du plaisir * Fetishism and control: La Belle Captive * Conclusion * Filmography * Select Bibliography * Index