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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
    1. Theory and Cartography
    2. Cinematic Taxonomy and Cartography
    3. Archive and Diagram
    4. Dislocation, Distance, Discretion
    5. Mental Mapping and Mobile Topography
    6. A Map in a Movie
  8. 1. Icarian Cinema: Paris qui dort
    1. A Site of Immaculate Origin
    2. A Film in Flux
    3. Two Spatial Stories
    4. Points of Comparison
    5. Liberty: A Vanishing Point
  9. 2. Jean Renoir: Cartographies in Deep Focus
    1. Boudu cartographe
    2. Tracking a Revolution
    3. La Grande illusion: Terrae incognitae
    4. Globes In and Out of Perspective
  10. 3. Maps and Theaters of Torture: Roma, città aperta
    1. A Map Room
    2. Italy Wallpapered: A Map in an Apartment
    3. A Theater of Torture
    4. Wiped Surfaces
  11. 4. A Desperate Journey: From Casablanca to Indiana Jones
    1. Crashing In and Crashing Out
    2. A Map in a Montage
    3. Desperate Journey
    4. Camouflage
    5. A Map-Dissolve: Casablanca
    6. From Historical Geography to Melodrama
    7. A Place Named
    8. Indiana Jones
  12. 5. Juvenile Geographies: Les Mistons
    1. A Story Plotted into Film
    2. Correspondence and Rewriting
    3. Scenes of Writing
    4. As the Crow Flies
    5. Old Films and New Worlds: An Allegory
  13. 6. Michelin Tendre: Les Amants
    1. A Book and a Movie
    2. “Attention au départ”
    3. The Gleaner and the Grease Monkey
    4. Pleats and Folds
    5. The Michelin Map after La Carte du Tendre
  14. 7. Paris Underground: Les 400 coups
    1. The “Quarrel”
    2. Credits
    3. Class Room and Map Room
    4. Mother and Mother France
    5. A Child’s Map
  15. 8. A Roadmap for a Road Movie: Thelma and Louise
    1. Geography and Gentility
    2. Cinematic Diagrams
    3. A Map Room and a Baroque Motel
    4. Reflectors and Benders
    5. Orpheus Rewritten
    6. The Map in the Picture
    7. Women Plotted
  16. 9. Cronos, Cosmos, and Polis: La Haine
    1. Children of France
    2. Events Crosscut
    3. The Lower Depths
    4. The World Is Ours
    5. Graffiti and Glossolalia
  17. 10. Ptolemy, Gladiator, and Empire
    1. A Correspondence: Empire and Gladiator
    2. Ptolemy’s Italia
    3. Map Effects and Special Effects
    4. Super Bowls
    5. Aftereffects
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Filmography
  22. Index
  23. Author Biography

Index

A bout de souffle [Breathless] (Jean-Luc Godard), 159, 178, 227n8, 236n7

A nous la liberté (René Clair), 38

Abel, Richard, 27, 219n5

Akerman, James, 157, 234n1

Allen, Karen, 103

Alpers, Svetlana, 169

Althusser, Louis, 189

Amants, Les (Louis Malle), 22, 124–40, 156, 158, 168, 211

and Brahms, 127, 139

and Robert Bresson, 137–39

cars in, 125–27, 131

and La Carte du Tendre, 127–29, 131–32, 136, 139–40

as a cartographic diagram, 139

departures in, 128–32, 134–36

and eroticized space, 140

and hieroglyphic gestures, 135

and landscape as map, 128–29, 132–33, 137–39

paintings in, 132–33

and La Règle du jeu, 125–26, 128–29, 131, 133

and relation with unknown, 140

and Renoir’s camera style, 129, 133

roadmaps in, 125, 127–28, 131–32, 136–37

and road movie, 125

toponyms in, 131, 137–38

and Louise de Vilmorin, 126

Andrew, Dudley, 222n13, 239n2

and Steven Ungar, 239n2

Apian, Pieter, 218–19n33, 216n11

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 37, 143, 232nn3–4

Arbellot, Guy, 232n14

Ariosto, Ludovico, 134

Arnoullet, Balthazar, 229n1

Asseyas, Olivier, 100–101, 229nn20–21, 229n25

Astruc, Alexandre, 237n11

Atalante, L’ (Jean Vigo), 131, 151–52

atlas-structure, 10, 26–27

Augé, Marc, 228n18, 233n15, 237n10, 237n2

Aulagnier, Piera, 218n32

auteur theory, 10, 11, 101

and cartography, 20, 65, 208

Baecque, Antoine: and Serge Toubiana, 230n2, 230nn9–11, 233n13

Balzac, Honoré de, 152

Barthes, Roland, 16–18

Bataille, Georges, 237n2

Baudelaire, Charles, 4, 37, 43, 44, 50, 222n5, 222n15

Bazin, André, 6–9, 14, 19–20, 43, 83, 130, 138–39, 145, 147, 207, 210, 218n25, 222n12, 222n15, 223n16

analysis of Rossellini, 67

on Bresson, 138–39

on Le crime de Monsieur Lange, 48–49

design of What Is Cinema, 6–8

on eroticism and cinema, 233n8

evolution of film language, 7, 216n13

on La Grande Illusion, 51

and image-fact, 8, 19–20

ontology of cinema, 20

and typology, 7, 9

Beaumarchais, Pierre de, 126

Beghe, Jason, 159

Belleforest, François de, 106

image of Pont du Gard in Cosmographie universelle, 106, 107

Bellour, Raymond, 232n12

Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 159

Benjamin, Walter, 15, 25, 218n28

Ben-Hur (Cecil B. DeMille), 211

Benton, John, 233n7

Bergman, Ingrid, 94, 99, 224n4

Bernanos, Georges, 137

Berry, Jules, 46

Bête humaine, La (Jean Renoir), 58, 119

Bicycle Thieves, The (Vittorio de Sica). See Ladri di bicilette

Bienvenuë, Fulgence, 142

Big Heat, The (Fritz Lang), 181, 226n22

Big Trail, The (Raoul Walsh), 227n7

Billard, Pierre, 27, 219n6

bilocation, 3–4, 15, 17

Birth of a Nation, The (D. W. Griffith), 194

Bitsch, Charles, 110, 150

Blache, Pierre Vidal de, 6, 216n9

Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott), 196

Black, Jeremy, 217n24, 238n7

Blaeu, Guillaume, 41, 128

Atlas major, 41–42

Blériot, Louis, 143

Blin, Gérard, 111

Bloch, R. Howard, 233n7

Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), 233n6

Boetticher, Budd, 8

Bogart, Humphrey, 84, 88, 94, 97, 99, 228n10

Bogue, Ronald, 217n18, 222n4

Böhnke, Alexander: Rembert Hüser and George Stanitzek, 229n22

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn), 157, 234, n2

Borges, Jorge-Luis, 2, 215n3

Bosch, Hieronymous, 231n9

Boudu sauvé des eaux (Jean Renoir), 40–45, 49, 59, 119, 151, 209, 222n10, 223n15, 226n6

and autographs, 41, 45

and baroque cartography, 41–42

countertilt of final shot, 45

and deep-focus photography, 42

and effects of flat depth, 42

and Les Fleurs du Mal, 43–44

modes of framing, 43

on-location setting of, 41

and Pont des Arts, 41

Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir). See Boudu sauvé des eaux

Brahms, Johannes. See Amants, Les

Brasillach, Robert, 123

Braun, Georg: and Franz Hogenburg, 129, 231n5

Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard). See A bout de souffle

Bresson, Robert, 19, 137–39, 151

Brialy, Jean-Claude, 118, 123, 145

Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee), 235n15

Bruegel, Pieter, 147

Brunette, Peter, 224n3

Bruno, Giuliana, 209, 232–33, n4

Bruno, Nando, 80

Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, 226n16

Buisseret, David, 5, 215n2, 231n5

Buisson, Ferdinand, 153

Burch, Noël, 222n10

Burden, Philip D., 234n7

Burgoyne, Robert, 227n23

Caged Heat (Jonathan Demme), 226n20

Cagney, James, 160

Caniff, Milton, 103

Carillo, Leo, 14

Carlo, Yvonne de, 160

Carte du Tendre, 75, 127, 131–32, 189, 230n2, 230–31nn4–6

and Thelma and Louise, 158, 168. See also Amants, Les

cartography, 1

and affect (see Carte du Tendre)

and affectivity, 116

as allegory, 124

as archive and diagram, 10–14, 20, 88, 93, 139, 102, 139

automotive, 125, 127

and childhood, 105, 106–24

and deixis, 216n7 (see also Metz, Christian)

as destiny, 84, 88

and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, 55

existential, 49

and film studies, 5

and globes, 146, 210

history of, 5, 8

and ideology, 4, 19, 20

and pedagogy, 6, 102, 145–49

as prayer and hope, 89–93

psychogenetic, 155

relation with logos and credits, 37

as strategy and tactics, 13–14

and subjectivity, 18, 20

viticultural, 6

and the war movie, 92

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), 74, 84, 93–100, 105, 157, 166, 210

and anatomy (in classrooms), 103, 146

cartography of credits, 94

compared to Pépé le Moko, 229n19

gaze and history, 99

lap- and map-dissolves in, 95–97

loss of grounding in, 95

relation with history, 98

use of flashback, 97–98

use of toponyms, 94, 99, 100

Casey, Edward, 216n2

Cassel, Vincent, 176

Cavell, Stanley, 62, 223n25, , 224n30

Certeau, Michel de, 13, 72, 140, 154, 168, 194

on cruel lucidity, 238n11

on getting lost, 213n9

and glossolalia, 230n8

and spatial stories, 194, 201, 215n4, 217n20, 220n18, 221n24, 225n11, 227n8, 236n5. See also toponymic narration

Chamberlain, Neville, 62

Chastel, André, 220n17

Château, Dominique: and Jacinto Lageira, 217n18

Chienne, La (Jean Renoir), 150, 233n6

chorography. See topography

cinema: as archive and diagram, 10–15, 20–21, 100–101, 104–5, 159–60, 194

and baroque cartography, 44, 222n6

as camouflage, 4, 92

as dissimulation, 92–93

as event, 7, 207

and geographical illusion, 192

and logistics of perception, 20, 194

as map, 1–2, 5, 15, and passim

and mental geography, 19

and narrative, 4

and ontology, 3, 6

and pedagogy, 26

and perception, 207, 212

and political geography, 122

“of quality” (de qualité), 123, 142

as strategic operation, 11

and subjectivity, 19–20

and subject-positions, 19, 212

and theaters of torture, 82

theme of desperate journeys, 83–105

and topography, 1

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), 8, 78

Clair, René, 20, 23–39, 65, 142, 220n13, 221n23

and Le Voyage imaginaire, 220n18. See also Paris qui dort

Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 119–23

Cocteau, Jean, 169

cognitive mapping, 19

Colman, Ronald, 236n4

Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh), 235n14

condamné à mort s’est échappé, Un [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson), 151

Conley, Tom, 224n2, 224n5, 218n32, 224n2, 227n2, 227n5

Conte d’automne [Autumn Tale] (Eric Rohmer), 5–6

Coppola, Francis, 225n25

Corbeau, Le [The Crow]. See Clouzot, Henri-Georges

Corneille, Pierre, 59

Coronelli, Vincenzo, 61

Cosgrove, Denis, 174

Courcelles, Dominique de, 220n19

Cowan, Jerome, 227n8

Crime de Monsieur Lang, Le (Jean Renoir), 9, 41, 45–51, 58, 59, 209, 216n14

André Bazin’s reading and mapping of, 48–49

coequality of map and camera, 47–48

and flashback, 45

and May 1968, 50–51

movement of its map, 46–47

noir-like qualities of, 47

and panoramic shots, 45–46, 48–49

topography in, 49–50

and utopian design, 50–51

Crime of M. Lange, The (Jean Renoir). See Crime de Monsieur Lange, Le

Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), 160

Crow, The (Henri-Georges Clouzot). See Clouzot, Henri-Georges

Crowe, Russell, 14, 192

Cuny, Alain, 126

Curchot, Olivier, 60, 61, 114, 128, 133, 223n25

Curtiz, Michael, 21. See also Casablanca

Dainville, Père François de, 215

D’Albenas, Poldo, 229n1

Dalio, Marcel, 59

Dasté, Jean, 151

Davis, Geena, 157

Day in the Country, A (Jean Renoir). See partie de campagne, Une

Debray, Eddy, 60

Decomble, Guy, 145, 233n6

deep-focus photography, 7, 20, 40, 42

Deer Hunter, The (Michael Cimino), 178

Defaux, Gérard, 222n8

Deixis. See Jacob, Christian

Metz, Christian DeJean, Joan, 230n2

Delannoy, Jean, 111, 118, 123

Delauney, Robert, 143

Deleuze, Gilles: and Félix Guattari, 223n2

Deleuze, Gilles, 7–14, 15, 19, 20–21, 33, 101, 154, 179, 217n16, 220n13, 223n15, 227n4, 237n1

archive versus diagram, 10–14

and auteur theory, 11, 20

and baroque space, 234n5, 235n17

and becoming, 13

on children’s maps, 154–55

cinematic taxonomy, 9–10

distinction of movement-versus time-image, 9–10, 208

on events, 237–38nn3–4

on folds and pleats, 213–32n10

and Michel Foucault, 10

on free indirect speech, 235n13

and haeccity, 207

island-theory in, 216n12

and mental images, 228n10

and molar-molecular distinction, 33

on non-places, 228–29n18

and prehension, 216n10

on Renoir, 43

and Rossellini, 67

and smooth space, 233n10

Delvaux, Paul, 132

Demetrius and the Gladiators (Delmer Daves), 200, 211

Denby, David, 233n5, 233n12, 236n1

Denon, Dominique Vivant, 126, 132

Derrida, Jacques, 84, 112, 230n6

Desperate Journey (Raoul Walsh), 84, 88–93, 105, 196, 210, 228n10, 228n15, 235n14

and abstract design, 92

as camouflage, 91–93

maps in credits, 91

montage sequence, 91

as prayer, 93, 104

relation with Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, 104–5

self-conscious dissimulation in, 92, 104

Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer), 157

Devos, Raymond, 184

Dietrich, Marlene, 68

Dilke, Oswald Ashton, 156

Disney, Walt, 178

Dort, Bernard, 238n6

Drew, Ellen, 236n4

Duchamp, Marcel, 31

Duggan, Anne, 230n2

Durand, Jean, 27

D’Urfé, Honoré, 132

Duvivier, Julien, 130

Eastwood, Clint, 178

Ebert, Roger, 203

Edgerton, Samuel, Jr., 224n27

Edison, Thomas, 27

Edson, Evelyn, 156

Eiffel Tower, 26, 27, 28, 142, 191, 212, 220nn15–16

and erasure of history, 26

in La Haine, 185

and relation with subway, 142

as site of emission of radio broadcasts and wireless, 37

Einstein, Albert, 25–26

Eisenstein, Sergei, 25

Epstein, Jean, 25

Epstein, Marie, 154

E.T. (Steven Spielberg), 229n25

events: and cinema, 9, 20

haptic quality of, 20. See also Bazin, André; Deleuze, Gilles

Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Anthony Mann), 14, 197–98, 201, 238n5

Faulkner, Christopher, 222n7

Faure, Elie, 25

Favier, Gilles, 175. See also Kassovitz, Matthieu

Feist, Harry, 69

Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst, 232n1

Ferry, Jules, 153

Feuillade, Louis, 26

film noir, 10, 123, 209

Filteau, Claude, 231n6

Flamand, Georges, 145, 233nn6–7

Flaubert, Gustave, 21

Florelle, 45

Flynn, Errol, 91

Focillon, Henri, 235n12

Ford, Harrison, 102

Ford, John, 111, 161

Foster, Jody, 174

Foucault, Michel, 5, 10–12, 13–14, 15, 78, 154, 192, 217n23

concept of discursive and visible formations, 10–12

and illegalism, 12

and politics, 13–14

Four Hundred Blows The (François Truffaut). See 400 coups, Les 400 coups, Les

(François Truffaut), 2, 21, 102, 141–55, 156, 173, 185, 210–12, 230n5, 237n10

as adolescent geography, 144, 151, 154

allegory of Mother France, 149, 152

associative style of, 153

Eiffel Tower in, 142–45

ending compared to sequence in L’Atalante, 151–52

geography of credits, 144–45

hieroglyphs in, 149–50

as mapping and prophecy, 155

maps in classroom of, 145–49

and modern poetry, 143

and Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns, 142–44

and Paris qui dort, 142–43

satire of pedagogical cartography of the Third Republic, 149–50, 153

scenes of writing in, 144, 147

and Truffaut’s childhood, 154

and use of globe, 148, 152

writing scene compared with Les Mistons, 147–48, 155

and Zéro de conduite, 147, 154

Fresnay, Pierre, 51, 120

Freud, Sigmund, 15–16, 78, 112, 155, 218nn30–31, 230n6

and “The Uncanny,” 15–16

Gabin, Jean, 51

Gance, Abel, 212

Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese), 213

Gardner, Ava, 159

Genet, Jean, 237n8

geography, 1, 3–4

adolescent, 144

mental, 4–18

and ontology, 3

and pedagogy, 26 (see also cinema: and pedagogy)

relations with displacement and hypnosis, 17

and topography, 28

as totality, 20. See also Apian, Pieter; Jacob, Christianl Ptolemy, Claudius

Germany, Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini), 65

Giard, Luce, 236n2

Gillain, Anne, 234n17

Giraudoux, Jean, 153

Giuliani, Pierre, 218n26

Gladiator (Ridley Scott) 14, 22, 191–206, 211, 238n9

and geographical illusion, 192

compared to Empire (Hardt and Negri), 193–94, 201

and style of Tacitus, 193

and family romance, 195

and Ptolemy’s Geographia, 195–96, 198–99, 211

and The Fall of the Roman Empire (Anthony Mann), 197–98, 201

computer-generated imagery of, 199–201, 203

and play of gaze, 200

and global advertising, 203–4, 206

and professional football, 202, 204–5

and perception of American military machinery, 204–5

as moving map and diagram, 206

and Montaigne, 238n10

Godard, Jean-Luc, 157, 159, 217n22, 221n20

and Histoire(s) du cinema, 217n16. See also A bout de souffle

Goebbels, Joseph, 102

Goering, Hermann, 90

Goffart, Walter, 217n17, 219n4

Gomery, Douglas, 85, 227n1, 227n4

Goss, John, 41

Grahame, Gloria, 226n22

Grande Illusion, La (Jean Renoir), 41, 51–59, 210, 223n16

and cadastral maps, 55

Wrst five shots of, 52–55

and geographic flux, 58

imaginary museum in, 57

map in third shot, 53–54

mobile geography of, 54

monocularity versus binocularity, 55–56

play on maps and cards, 57

relation of allegory and cartography, 57, 58

and reversal of space, 55

and tradition of military topography, 55

Grand Illusion, The (Jean Renoir). See Grande Illusion, La

Granval, Charles, 41

Gregor, Nora, 60

Griffith, David Wark, 194

Guéroult, Guillaume, 228n1

Guide Michelin, 136, 138, 153

Guillaume, Jean, 220n12

Guinness, Alec, 14

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis), 125, 168

Gunning, Tom, 234n2

Haine, La [Hate] (Matthieu Kassovitz), 22, 174–90, 191, 211–12, 236n2, 237n10

allegorical personages in, 176

and Apollo 17 mission, 174, 185–87, 190

background of screenplay, 176

and banlieue, 177, 180, 188

as cinematic diagram, 174

and cow maps, 190

Eiffel Tower in, 185–86

and gentility, 183, 189

and May 1968, 174, 185

metaphysical geography of, 184–86, 188

and Pascal’s two infinites, 188

and Pierrot le fou, 184

product-placement in, 182

and raw speech, 179–80, 189–90

reception of, 188–89

relation with other films, 186

relation with writing and ciné-écriture, 182, 187

sequence in bathroom, 180–82

sequence in movie theater, 177–78

and theaters of cruelty, 178–80

and the world-upside-down, 190

Hale, Alan, 90, 234n14

Hale, John, 224n30

Hallelujah! (King Vidor), 216n14

Hamilton, John, 223n18

Hardt, Michael, 192–95, 201

Harley, J. Brian, 5, 219–20n11, 239n1

Harris, Richard, 14, 195

Harrison, Richard Edes, 95, 228n11, 228n16

Hate (Matthieu Kassovitz). See Haine, La

Hawks, Howard, 218n26

Hayden, Harry, 227n5

Hayworth, Rita, 181

Helgerson, Richard, 224n7

Henreid, Paul, 94, 99

Hieroglyphs, 7, 122, 135, 149

High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), 83–89, 105, 157, 160, 166, 168, 210

as desperate journey, 83, 86–88

as diagram, 88

geography and cartography of, 84–85, 87, 89

haptic quality of, 86

and landscapes, 85, 88

maps in montage and dissolves, 86–88

movement of credits, 84, 88

space and destiny in, 84, 88

toponyms in, 87–88, 89, 105, 227n7

Higonnet, Patrice, 232n1

Hiroshima, mon amour (Alain Resnais), 212

Hitchcock, 151, 160, 216n8

Hitchhiker, The (Ida Lupino), 157

Hogenburg, Franz. See Braun, Georg

Holland, Norman N., 233n11, 233–34n16

Hondius, Jodocus, 41

Huizenga, Johann, 223n24

Hull, Henry, 84

Human Beast, The (Jean Renoir). See Bête humaine, La

If I Were King (Frank Lloyd), 236n4

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg), 83, 92, 100–105, 210

as archive, 103, 105

design of credits, 101–2

and Desperate Journey, 104–5

as diagram, 100, 104–5

and French new wave cinema, 100

ideological contours of, 104

map room in, 100, 103

and power of cinema, 102–3

use of globe in, 102–3

India-Song (Marguerite Duras), 212–13

ingénieurs du roi, 55, 127

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai), 5

Itkine, Silvain, 56

Ivanhoe (Richard Thorpe), 199

Jacob, Christian, 18, 216n7, 222n6, 223n19, 224n29, 225n11, 233n14, 237n14

Jameson, Fredric, 19, 212, 218n33

Journal d’un cure de campagne (Robert Bresson), 137

Jousse, Thierry, 218n26

Julia, Dominique, 140

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg), 238n9

Kagan, Richard, 225n8

Karrow, Robert, 224n1, 234n7

Kassovitz, Matthieu, 22, 175, 209. See also Haine, La

Kaufman, Boris, 151

Keitel, Harvey, 159

Killers, The (Robert Siodmak), 159, 235n19

King, Rodney, 189

Kline, T. Jefferson, 230n1, 231n6, 232n10, 234n9

Kounde, Hubert, 177

Kubrick, Stanley, 201

Lacan, Jacques, 4

Lachenay, Robert, 112, 230n5

Lacotte, Suzanna, 217n18

Ladd, Alan, 14

Ladri di bicilette [The Bicycle Thieves] (Vittorio de Sica), 225n9

Lady from Shanghai, The (Orson Welles), 181

Lafont, Bernadette, 109, 120, 124

Lancaster, Burt, 159, 160

Lang, Fritz, 7, 10, 102, 151, 157, 181

Law and Order (Dick Wolfe), 178

Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 145

Le Clerc, Jean, 224n30

Lefcourt, Jenny, 189, 237nn11–13

Lefèvre, René, 45

Léger, Fernand, 25

Lerczinska, Séverine, 41

Lestringant, Frank, 168, 224n2, 227n8

Leutrat, Jean-Louis, 217n19

and Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, 234n6

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 226n22, 229n20

locational imaging, 2, 4, 17, 56, 65, 87

Lovers, The (Louis Malle). See Amants, Les

Lucas, George, 100, 102

Lumière, Louis (and Auguste), 26, 27, 28, 125, 192

Entrée d’un train en gare, 111, 118, 119

Lupino, 157, 228n10

Lyotard, Jean-François, 51

M (Fritz Lang), 212

MacLane, Barton, 86

Madsen, Michael, 159

Magnani, Anna, 66

Magre, Judith, 126

Magritte, René, 132–33

Maîtres fous, Les (Jean Rouch), 178

Malige, Jean, 111, 121

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 139, 232n3

Malle, Louis, 22, 124. See also Amants, Les [The Lovers]

Malraux, André, 57

and imaginary museum, 210

Man Escaped, A (Robert Bresson) See condamné à mort s’est échappé, Un Man from Laramie, The (Anthony Mann), 238n5

Mann, Anthony, 14–15, 201, 238n5. See also Fall of the Roman Empire, The

map-dissolves, 86–88, 95–97

maps: as agents of control and global positioning, 209

as archives and as diagrams, 10–13, 208

and atlas-structure, 3

automotive, 125, 138, 156–57

character of, 4

in and as cinema, 1–22, 207, and passim

cognitive, 19

distinction of urbs and civitas, 70

early modern, 3

and emblems or logos in credits, 2, 37, 80, 93–94, 101, 220–21n20

ephemeral, 157, 209

existential itineraries in, 72–73, 96

and globes, 61–62, 95, 102–3, 114

and intertitles, 2

island-book or isolario, 216n12

itineraria and roadmaps, 156

language of, 1, 43

mental, 1, 18

and montage, 86–88, 95–97, 98–99

and narrative, 1

negotiation of history and current events in, 100

and non-places, 228, n18

and perception, 194, 207–8

relation with film genres, 103–4, 209

route-enhancing, 227n10

as “speaking” objects, 70, 72, 74, 232n13

and subjectivity, 4, 209, 216n7

and tradition of studiolo, 72–73

Marin, Louis, 223n14

Marley, Bob, 176

Marot, Clément, 222n8

Massey, Raymond, 90

Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle, 232n13

Maupassant Guy de, 110, 133

Maurier, Claire, 152

McCabe, Colin, 218–19n33

McDonald, Christopher, 157

McElwee, Ross, 235n15

Méliès, Georges, 27, 28, 192

Melville, Herman, 155

Melville, Jean-Pierre. See Bob le flambeur

Menand, Louis, 234n2

Mercator, Gerard, 41

Mercator, Michael, 163, 165–66, 172

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 24, 29, 38, 219n1

Metz, Christian, 19–20, 215n1, 219n3, 235n13

Michaelson, Annette, 25–26, 219n2

Michi, Maria, 69

mise en abyme, 20, 118, 235n15

Mistons, Les [The Rascals] (François Truffaut), 21, 106–24, 144, 155, 210–11, 224n28, 236n7

acts of writing in, 117–19, 122–23

allegorical geography of, 112, 121

La Carte du Tendre, 116, 124

cartographic allegory of, 124

and Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot), 119–21, 123

credits in, 112

and relation d’inconnu, 108, 114

and Jean Delannoy, 118

and national cinema, 122

and Une partie de campagne (Jean Renoir), 118–19

and politique des auteurs, 111–12, 121

and Maurice Pons, 108–10, 111–12

and Pont du Gard, 107–9, 112, 113, 115, 124

“primal scene” in, 114

and Proust, 111, 118

and Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns, 115, 124

relation with history, 121

relation with La Règle du jeu, 114–15

as topography, 108

tradition of eclogue in, 108

Modot, Gaston, 59, 126, 134

Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 127

Montaigne, Michel de, 124, 188, 238n10, 238n12

Moonfleet (Fritz Lang), 212

Morales, Ezy, 160

Moreau, Jeanne, 126, 129, 145

Moreno, Dario, 111

Mortimer, Helen, 229n1

Mystic River (Clint Eastwood), 178, 213

Nana (Jean Renoir), 222n10

Napoléon (Abel Gance), 212

Narboni, Jean, 229n25

National Geographic Atlas of the World, 219n4

Negri, Toni. See Hardt, Michael

New Wave cinema, 107, 210

and Second World War, 210

Nolan, Jeanette, 181

non-places, 97, 162–63, 191

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), 160, 161

Northern Pursuit (Raoul Walsh), 235n14

Nouveau Paris monumental (map of Paris), 141, 219n3

Objective, Burma (Raoul Walsh), 224n5, 238n6

O’Brien, Edmund, 159

Ophüls, Max, 110

Orphée [Orpheus] (Jean Cocteau), 169

Ortelius, Abraham, 66, 225n12

Ousselin, Edward, 221n24

Ozouf, Jacques and Mona, 233n14

Pagliero, Marcello, 69

Paisan (Roberto Rossellini), 8, 65, 226n14

Palazzo Vecchio (Florence), 225n10

Palm Beach Story, The (Preston Surges), 224n3

Panique (Julien Duvivier), 130

Panofsky, Erwin, 231n8, 238n8

Paramount Studios, 101–2

Paris, Matthew, 156

Paris qui dort [The Crazy Ray] (René Clair], 21, 23–39, 40, 142, 206, 209, 212

and agoraphobia, 32

cartography of, 38–39

flashbacks, 33–35

and light and darkness, 34, 38–39

as mapped image, 31

as mystical tale, 35–36

sound cues in, 34, 36

theme of immobility versus movement, 30, 33, 34

as topography, 26

and toponymy, 37–38

two copies and comparisons of, 30–37

use of intertitles, 29, 34, 36, 38

views of Paris from Eiffel Tower, 30

and zones of social conflict, 33

Parlo, Dita, 151

Parmiggiani, Claudio, 237n14

partie de campagne, Une [A Day in the Country] (Jean Renoir), 118, 131

Pascal, Blaise, 174, 188

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 235n13

Passarelli, Eduardo, 71

Pastoureau, Mireille, 224n30

Pelletier, Monique, 224n29

Penn, Arthur, 157

Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier), 229n19

perspectival object, 38, 60, 221n22

Peters, Jeffrey, 230n3

Peutinger tabula, 156

Pezzini, Isabella, 223n14

Phoenix, Joachim, 192

Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard), 157, 236n7

Pinet, Antoine du, 229n1

Pitt, Brad, 158, 235n11

Plummer, Christopher, 14

Pons, Maurice, 108–9, 112, 118

Pont du Gard (Roman aqueduct). See Mistons, Les

Poussin, Nicolas, 117, 132

Powell, Colin, 205

Promio, Alexandre, 192

Proust, Marcel, 111, 118

Ptolemy, Claudius, 8, 14, 28, 191, 198, 216n11, 217n17, 219n8, 224n27, 238n7

Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns, 115, 124. See also Truffaut, François

Rains, Claude, 99

Ramar of the Jungle, 102

Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang), 212

Rancière, Jacques, 66, 208, 216n1, 224n3

Rascals, The (François Truffaut). See Mistons, Les

Rathbone, Basil, 236n4

Reagan, Ronald, 90, 91

Regeneration (Raoul Walsh), 227n7

Règle du jeu, La (Jean Renoir), 41, 58, 59–64, 113–15, 125–26, 128–29, 155, 181, 210, 222n10, 223n15, 223nn24–25, 231n7

and cartography of fear, 64

and L’Illusion comique, 59

and lateral reframing, 60

moncularity and binocularity, 60

perspectival object in, 60

use of globes and gun barrels in, 61–64

use of perspective, 59–60

Reisz, Karel: and Gavin Miller, 226n20

Renoir, Jean, 7, 9, 20, 39, 40–64, 77, 81, 118, 125–26, 129, 209, 216n14, 222n9, 223n20

cartographic effects of his cinema, 40–41

and La chienne, 233n6. See also Boudu sauvé des eaux; Crime de Monsieur Lange, Le; Grande Illusion, La; Règle du jeu, La

Revel, Jean-Jacques, 140

Revere, Carla, 74

Rimbaud, Arthur, 139

Rivette, Jacques, 111

Rodowick, David, 217n18

Rohdie, Sam, 59

Rohmer, Eric, 5–6

Roma, città aperta [Open City] (Roberto Rossellini), 21, 65–82, 83, 178

and allegorical mapping, 76–77

analysis of, by Jacques Rancière, 66–67, 81

antechamber and map room of, 69, 72–73, 76

and dissimulation, 67–68, 73–74, 77–78

and invisibility of violence, 78, 81

map in Pina’s apartment, 73–74

mapping tendency in, 68

psychic space of, 73, 80–81

and mural maps, 72

rapid movement in, 79

and split-representation, 80

theatrical gestures in, 71

theory and practice of torture in, 76, 82

topographic view of Rome, 82

and tradition of theatrum mundi, 66

use of shutters in, 72, 78–78

and use of the wipe, 77–80

Rommel, Erwin, 100

Roncoroni, Stefano, 224n6, 226nn14–15, 226, nn17–19

Ropars-Wuilleumier, Marie-Claire, 212, 217n19, 218n19, 227n3

Rosolato, Guy, 108, 221n22

Rossellini, Roberto, 8, 9, 20, 43, 83, 111

and auteur theory, 65. See also Roma, città aperta

Rossi, Aldo, 67

Rouch, Jean, 237n8

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 24

Roussel, Raymond, 11

route-enhancing maps, 96. See also maps: existential itineraries in

Rules of the Game, The (Jean Renoir), See Règle du jeu, La

Ruman, Sig, 90

Sadoul, Georges, 26

Sanson, Nicolas, 41

Sarandon, Susan 157

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 237n9

Saskatchewan (Raoul Walsh), 14

Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg), 201, 238n9

Saxon, Christopher, 224n7

Scarface (Howard Hawks), 186

Scarry, Elaine, 237n9

Schilder, Günter, 234n10

Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg), 201

Schulten, Susan, 228n11

Schulz, Juergen, 73, 223n21, 225n10

Schwartzkopf, Norman, 205

Scorsese, Martin, 159

Scott, Ridley, 14, 21, 156, 173, 211. See also Gladiator; Thelma and Louise

Scudéry, Mademoiselle de, 127, 140, 158, 211, 213n5. See also Carte du Tendre, La

Searchers, The (John Ford), 3

Seberg, Jean, 227n8

Sesonske, Alexander, 221n2, 222n13

Sheridan, Ann, 234n3

Shirley, Rodney, 235n10

Simon, Michel, 43, 151

Siskel, Gene, 203

Skelton, Raleigh, 224n1

Sloane, Everett, 181

Sous les toits de Paris [Under the Rooftops of Paris] (René Clair), 27, 219n7

Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick), 201, 211

Spears, Britney, 205

Speed, John, 224n7

Spelman, Elizabeth W.: and Martha Minow, 234n4, 236n20

Spielberg, Steven, 21, 100, 102, 210. See also Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Stagecoach (John Ford), 161

Stallone, Sylvester, 178

Starobinski, Jean, 221n24, 232n2

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 174–75, 176

Stewart, James, 228n10

Stroheim, Eric von, 55

Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini), 65

Sturges, Preston, 236n4

Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges), 192

Taghmaoui, Saïd, 177

Talens, Jenaro, 229n22

Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (Richard Thorpe), 102

Tati, Jacques, 111

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese), 159

Terdiman, Richard, 221n21

Terra trëma, La (Luchino Visconti), 230n7

Theatrum mundi, 21, 66, 70

Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott), 22, 156–72, 173, 182, 191, 211

and automotive enclosure, 161

baroque style of, 167

and baroque world-maps, 163–65

and Carte du Tendre, 158, 168

as cinematic diagram, 159–60

citations in, 159–61

and codes of gentility, 158–59

and gender, 171–72

orphic theme of, 168, 171

place-names in, 164–67

and projective identification, 172

reflections and bent space in, 166–67

and roadmaps, 157, 162

sequence in roadside motel, 162–66

use of freeze-frame in, 158

and Vermeer, 169–71

windshield as map, 166–67

They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh), 234n3

Thirty-Nine Steps, The (Alfred Hitchcock), 151, 216n8

Thrower, Norman, 228n11, 228n15

Tifft, Stephen, 62

Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut), 227n8

To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch), 90

Toni (Jean Renoir), 222n9

topography, 8–9, 20, 28, 225nn7–8

and relation to geography, 8

toponymic narration, 89, 105, 168, 227n8

toponymy, 86–88

Toutain, Roland, 62

Trade Winds (Tay Garnett), 217n15

Triumph of the Will, The (Leni Riefenstahl), 202

Truffaut, François, 21, 107, 140, 173, 209, 230nn4–5

and autobiographical cinema, 107–8

on Henri-Georges Clouzot, 230n9

and La Grande Illusion, 51

and politique des auteurs, 108

relation with Maurice Pons, 110–11. See also 400 coups

Mistons, Les Turgot, Michel-Etienne, 23–24, 29, 38, 39

map of Paris, 24

Ulmer, Edgar G., 157

Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair). See Sous les toits de Paris

Ungar, Steven R., 222n13

Vermeer, Jan, 169

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock), 216n8, 228n10

Vertov, Dziga, 25

Vidler, Anthony, 232n11, 235n18

Vidor, Charles (King), 9

Vie est à nous, La (Jean Grémillon), 186

Vigo, Jean, 111, 131

and L’Atalante, 220n13. See also Zéro de conduite

Villalonga, J. L. de, 126

Villon, François, 175, 189, 236n4

Vilmorin, Louise de, 126

Virilio, Paul, 194, 217n22, 220–21n20, 224n5, 237–38n3

visite, Une (François Truffaut), 230n2

Visscher, Claes Jansz, 165–66, 169–72, 191

Viva l’Italia! (Roberto Rossellini), 65

Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini), 82

Walsh, Raoul, 14, 160, 218n26, 227–28n10. See also Desperate Journey; High Sierra; Saskatchewan; White Heat

Warner Brothers Studios. See Casablanca; Desperate Journey; High Sierra

Welles, Orson, 7–8, 43

White Heat (Raoul Walsh), 160, 235n14

Whitman, Walt, 155

Williams, Linda, 217n21

Willis, Sharon, 236n20

Winters, Shelley, 14

Wolff, Francis, 219n34

Wood, Denis, 5

Woodward, David, 221n3, 227n9, 239n1

Woolf, Virginia, 159

Wyler, William, 7–8

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang), 157, 234n2

Zéro de conduite (Jean Vigo), 102, 147, 151. See also 400 coups, Les

Zunzunegui, Santos, 232n15

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Sections of chapter 5 were originally published in “Les Mistons” and Undercurrents of French New Wave Cinema, The Norman and Jane Geske Lecture Series 8 (Lincoln, Neb.: Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, 2003); reprinted with permission from Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Material in chapter 9 was originally published in “A Web of Hate,” South Central Review 17, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 88–103; reprinted with permission.

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