Totally Truffaut

Anne Gillain's book is phenomenal. I dived into every page and learned a thousand things; never before had I understood the importance of Truffaut's work so well. Truffaut invented a world of cinema to which Anne Gillain has found the key. * Arnaud Desplechin, Director * In Anne Gillain, Truffaut found the passionate viewer his films were made to arouse and satisfy, someone preternaturally attuned to his complex emotions yet adroit in deciphering the panoply of techniques he deployed, often slyly and mysteriously, to release feelings into intriguing narratives that bleed onto the screen in unforgettable images and sounds. Adopting both his human warmth and his artistic precision, Gillain has written a novel in 23 chapters with Truffaut as hero, film after film. You can't put it down. * Dudley Andrew, Yale University * Meglin's expertise as well as her passion for her subject matter shine through in her generous, rigorously researched, and comprehensive biography of Ruth Page. Meglin makes a compelling argument for a renewed examination of Page's overlooked contributions: this is a readable and engaging study of an American Midwestern choreographer whose works were unorthodox, experimental, inflected by the rhythms of jazz * and female.Karen Eliot, Emerita Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University *