The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut
Wheeler Winston Dixon
with translations by Ruth Cassel Hoffman, Sonja Kropp, Brigitte Formentin-Humbert
"I found Wheeler Winston Dixon's book absolutely superb . . . Dixon's throughness and provocative insights provide a rich context for enjoying Truffaut's writing and, in particular, his filmmaking. . .it is an absolutely essential volume for more fully understanding and enjoying Truffaut's work."
----Richard Brown, Director, The New York Center for Motion Picture Arts
"Professor Dixon's study expands and revises our understanding of Truffaut's career at Cahiers. By providing many first translations of Truffaut's prolific, detailed and idiosyncratic reviews of the Hollywood "B" picture, Dixon not only enhances our appreciation of this director's astonishingly eclectic love for movies but calls into question the more narrow critical concerns of readers like myself. This book serves as a valuable corrective to our received views of both the auteur theory and the classical Hollywood cinema."
----Lloyd Michaels, Editor, Film Criticism
Before turning to filmmaking, François Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cinéma during the 1950s. The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut makes available, for the first time in English, articles that originally appeared in French journals such as Cahiers du Cinéma and Arts. Truffaut discussses films by such acknowledged masters as Hitchcock, Huston, Dymtryk, and Lang, but also examines the work of such lesser-kown directors as Robert Wise, Don Weis and Roger Vadim.
Paperback - 177 pages (February 1993) Indiana University Press; ISBN: 0253207711.
Hardcover - 177 pages (June 1993) Indiana University Press; ISBN: 0253318076.