Jacques Tati His Life & Art by Bellos, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page About the Author Also by David Bellos Jacques Tati: His Life and Art Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Illustrations Photocredits Preface Writing on Walls Part One: Years of Practice, 1907–1946

One: French Family Tatischeff Two: The Framing Business Three: The Cavalier Four: Tati’s University Five: Les Copains Six: Down and Out Seven: Oscar, Roger and Rhum Eight: Sporting Impressions Nine: A Day in the Country Ten: The Centaur Eleven: Make-Believe Twelve: Tati’s War Thirteen: The Way Back Fourteen: Mr Byrnes and M. Blum

Part Two: Years of Achievement, 1946–1960

Fifteen: Local Colour Sixteen: Sounds and Words Seventeen: Back-Up Eighteen: US Go Home! Nineteen: Deepest France Twenty: Windows and Frames Twenty-One: A Slow Release Twenty-Two: Declarations of Independence Twenty-Three: Waiting for Hulot Twenty-Four: Gags, Jokes, and Switches Twenty-Five: On the Beach Twenty-Six: Holiday Mood Twenty-Seven: Accident Twenty-Eight: My Uncle Twenty-Nine: The Old World and the New Thirty: Tati-Total

Part Three: Playtime, 1960–1970

Thirty-One: Edifice Complex Thirty-Two: Le Gadget Thirty-Three: The Wide Screen Thirty-Four: Economic Airlines Thirty-Five: Situations Thirty-Six: Fish in Water Thirty-Seven: Towers of Babel Thirty-Eight: The End of the Road

Part Four: Confusion, 1970–1982

Thirty-Nine: Tati-TV Forty: Rescue from the North Forty-One: Mirrors of Motors Forty-Two: On Tour, On Show Forty-Three: A French Fortnight Forty-Four: Circus Time Forty-Five: Confusion

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