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Research Article

The construction of ‘Jacques Becker’: realism, popular film and the auteur in 1950s film criticism

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Figures 1 and 2. Robert Lamoureux as Arsène Lupin/André Laroche. Removing his disguise is just another everyday gesture, like putting on a record.

Figures 1 and 2. Robert Lamoureux as Arsène Lupin/André Laroche. Removing his disguise is just another everyday gesture, like putting on a record.

Figure 3. Max (Jean Gabin) brushing his teeth in Touchez pas au grisbi.

Figure 3. Max (Jean Gabin) brushing his teeth in Touchez pas au grisbi.

Figure 4. Françoise (Anne Vernon) peeling potatoes in Rue de l’Estrapade while Robert (Daniel Gélin) looks on.

Figure 4. Françoise (Anne Vernon) peeling potatoes in Rue de l’Estrapade while Robert (Daniel Gélin) looks on.

Figure 5. Fernandel, Ardisson and Gamal: Morgiane reduced to an almost wordless spectacle.

Figure 5. Fernandel, Ardisson and Gamal: Morgiane reduced to an almost wordless spectacle.

Figure 6. Oriental fairytale and farce rendered in ‘sumptuous’ colour: Ali Baba (Fernandel) and Morgiane (Samia Gamal) triumph.

Figure 6. Oriental fairytale and farce rendered in ‘sumptuous’ colour: Ali Baba (Fernandel) and Morgiane (Samia Gamal) triumph.

Figure 7. Becker’s tasteful colour depiction of Belle Époque Paris in Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin.

Figure 7. Becker’s tasteful colour depiction of Belle Époque Paris in Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin.