Background
Kline, Thomas Jefferson was born on July 16, 1942 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Oral Lee and Susan (White) Kline.
( Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell...)
Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels. But the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature. With subversive techniques that exploded traditional methods of film narrative, they embraced fragmentation and alienation. Their cinema would be literature's rival, not its apprentice. In Screening the Text, T. Jefferson Kline argues that the New Wave's rebellious stance is far more complex and problematic than critics have acknowledged. Challenging conventional views of film and literature in postwar France, Kline explores the New Wave's unconscious obsession with the tradition it claimed to reject. He uncovers the wide range of the literary and cultural texts―American films, classical mythology, French literature, and a variety of Russian, Norwegian, German, and English writers and philosophers―as "screened" in seven films: Truffaut's Jules et Jim; Malle's Les Amants; Resnais's L'Année dernière à Marienbad; Chabrol's Le Beau Serge; Rohmer's Ma Nuit chez Maud; Bresson's Pickpocket; and Godard's Pierrot le fou.
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( Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell...)
Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels. But the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature. With subversive techniques that exploded traditional methods of film narrative, they embraced fragmentation and alienation. Their cinema would be literature's rival, not its apprentice. In Screening the Text, T. Jefferson Kline argues that the New Wave's rebellious stance is far more complex and problematic than critics have acknowledged. Challenging conventional views of film and literature in postwar France, Kline explores the New Wave's unconscious obsession with the tradition it claimed to reject. He uncovers the wide range of the literary and cultural texts -- American films, classical mythology, French literature, and a variety of Russian, Norwegian, German, and English writers and philosophers -- as "screened" in seven films: Truffaut's Jules et Jim; Malle's Les Amants; Resnais's L'Année dernière à Marienbad; Chabrol's Le Beau Serge; Rohmer's Ma Nuit chez Maud; Bresson's Pickpocket; and Godard's Pierrot le fou.
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Kline, Thomas Jefferson was born on July 16, 1942 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Oral Lee and Susan (White) Kline.
Bachelor cum laude with high honors, Oberlin College, 1964; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1969.
Assistant professor French, Columbia University, 1969-1970; from assistant professor to associate professor French and comparative literature, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1970-1979; associate dean faculty of arts and letters, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1976-1978; professor French department modern foreign languages and literature, Boston University, since 1979; department chairman, Boston University, 1979-1988. Visiting professor French University of California, Berkeley, 1988, Tufts U., 1990.
( Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell...)
( Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell...)
Member Modern Language Association, Forum for Psychoanalytic Study of Film.
Married Katherine Gordon, August 25, 1965 (divorced March 1981). Children: Ethan, Chloe. Married Julia P. Anderson, October 6, 1984.
1 child, Phoebe.