03204nam 22005172 4500 f329927d-9e1f-4647-b95f-5ab2c3d33df2 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 2025939058 9781685711924 (Paperback) 9781685711931 (PDF) 10.53288/0480.1.00 doi UkCbTOM eng local ART057000 bisacsh PHI001000 bisacsh ATFA thema 1DDF thema 3MPBGJ thema 6NW thema Deroo, Florian, author. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Barge Life : On Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" / Florian Deroo. Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (102 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through punctum books. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Waves washing up against the hull, a bed and a small stove, the deck hatch sealed shut — the vessel is the ultimate dwelling.How to live together in cramped quarters? How to create a microcosm against hostile surroundings? In Barge Life, Florian Deroo tackles these question by looking at a mythical classic of French cinema: Jean Vigo’s 1934 film L’Atalante. A work brimming with the energies of surrealism and anarchism, L’Atalante follows a young couple, two shipmates, and a clowder of cats who dwell in the belly of a river barge. Deroo offers a wide-ranging essay on the film, revealing how it invokes a small group that withdraws from the rhythm of modern life to establish a different kind of existence elsewhere. In L’Atalante’s most riveting moments, the river barge becomes a vehicle for a powerful fantasy: a flexible collective life, lived in sensuous interdependence.Combining film criticism, philosophy, and biography, this book reconsiders a forerunner of the French New Wave and the early death of its director. Drawing readers into the living spaces of L’Atalante, Deroo explores the allure of retreating into a self-sufficient shelter, along with its intractable problems. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. film criticism film studies French cinema nouvelle vague Roland Barthes Jean Vigo fantasy space punctum books, publisher. https://doi.org/10.53288/0480.1.00 Connect to e-book https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/0480.1.00_frontcover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License