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ABSTRACT
Focusing specifically on Jacques Prévert's screenplays for Jean Renoir (Le Crime de M. Lange) and Marcel Carné (Drôle de drame and Les Enfants du paradis), this essay explores the legacy of the Surrealist Movement—particularly Georges Bataille's advocacy of amour fou and the informe—on the French political left's difficulties in generating a viable politics of collective resistance during the period of the Popular Front and the immediate aftermath of Vichy defeatism.
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Colin Gardner
Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of critical studies on Joseph Losey and Karel Reisz for Manchester UP and Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art (2012) for Palgrave Macmillan. He is co-editor of two anthologies with Professor Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University): Deleuze and the Animal (Edinburgh UP, 2017) and Ecosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).