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urn:uuid:f329927d-9e1f-4647-b95f-5ab2c3d33df2 03 15 9781685711931 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Barge Life On Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" 1 A01 Florian Deroo Florian Deroo is a historian and literary scholar. He studied in Ghent and New York, and is currently preparing a dissertation on interwar travel writing at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has written on film for various publications and is the editor of De Netflix: Essays (2021). 01 eng 00 102 03 10 ART057000 23 Cultural Studies+Critical Theory 23 film criticism 23 film studies 23 Moving Image 10 PHI001000 23 French cinema 23 Philosophy 23 nouvelle vague 23 Roland Barthes 23 Jean Vigo 23 fantasy 23 space 01 06 03 00 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. Dead Letter Office 01 punctum books 04 01 20250703 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685711924 06 15 9781685711931 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01