Author Spotlight

Christopher Faulkner

Christopher Faulkner is a professor of film studies and the director of the interdisciplinary Cultural Mediations Ph.D. program at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir and, with Olivier Curchod, La Règle du jeu: scénario original de Jean Renoir. He is currently writing a reception history of The Rules of the Game.

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Boudu Saved from Drowning: Tramping in the City

Featuring a brilliant, idiosyncratic performance by Michel Simon, Jean Renoir’s early comedy is a commendation of loitering as the antidote to efficiency and perfection.

By Christopher Faulkner

Essays— Aug 23, 2005
Elena and Her Men

Dismissed as minor Jean Renoir, the film deserves better, especially when seen in the larger context of numerous American and European films of the 1950s and their shared preoccupation with theater and performance.

By Christopher Faulkner

Essays— Aug 3, 2004