A complete survey - the first in English - of Jacques Rivette's sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day.

Douglas Morrey is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies in the University of Warwick. Alison Smith is Lecturer in European Film Studies at the University of Liverpool

List of plates
Series editors' foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The art of the present and the dialectics of duration: The film criticism of Jacques Rivette
3. In the labyrinth: Narrative, conspiracy, community
4. Story as space: Space as story
5. Family secrets
6. La Règle du jeu: Games and play
7. Play, theatre and performance
8. Adaptation
9. Pushing the envelope: Bodies, love and jealousy
10. Out of time: The unconsoled in Rivette's late works
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Filmography
Index