18. Vanya on 42nd Street: Inventing a Space of Creation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Foreword 1
6. Introduction 5
7. Transversal Studies
8. 1. Malle Before Malle 19
9. 2. The Art of Silence: From Documentary to Fiction 34
10. 3. No Comment: Direct Cinema in Humain, trop humain and Place de la République 49
11. 4. Louis Malle’s Nonfiction: Tradition, Rebellion and Authorial Voice 63
12. 5. Louis Malle’s 1960s ‘Star’ Films 72
13. 6. Experimentation and Automatism in Zazie dans le métro and Black Moon 86
14. 7. Louis Malle and ‘His’ Writers (Drieu La Rochelle, Nimier, Modiano) 99
15. 8. A Gendered Geography of Death: Louis Malle’s Orphic Voyage 107
16. 9. The Figure of the Mother in May Fools, Au revoir les enfants and Murmur of the Heart 116
17. 10. Jazz as Counterpoint in Elevator to the Gallows, Murmur of the Heart and Pretty Baby 127
18. Monographic Essays
19. 11. The Fire Within: Touching 145
20. 12. Le Voleur: (Self-)Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Thief 159
21. 13. Absorption and Reflexivity in Phantom India 174
22. 14. Fog of War: Lacombe Lucien and Its Afterlives 185
23. 15. Memory, Friendship and History in Au revoir les enfants 200
24. 16. Atlantic City: When Sound Meets Utopia 210
25. 17. Between Conversation and Conversion: My Dinner with André 222
26. 18. Vanya on 42nd Street: Inventing a Space of Creation 232
27. Interview
28. Truth and Poetry: An Interview with John Guare (New York, 7 October 2015) 246
29. Varia (Previously Unpublished Material)
30. Notes for a Lecture to be Given by Louis Malle on the Queen Elizabeth 2 257
31. Script of ‘The Loner’ by Louis Malle 265
32. Afterword 303
33. Filmography 305
34. Index 311