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The 400 Blows

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The Aesthetics of Absorption: Truffaut’s ‘The 400 Blows’

By Chadwick Jenkins

In Truffaut, the camera works not to keep the viewer out of the constructed reality of the film but rather to draw the viewer into the artifice, to make the viewer complicit in its feigned reality [2 April 2009]

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