ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to clarify the influence Alexandre Astruc had on Eric Rohmer and, by extension, on the politique des auteurs. While it is well-known that ‘Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo’ (Astruc's most famous article) has been a decisive and durable influence on that critical movement, ‘Dialectique et Cinéma’ (a lesser known article Astruc published in 1949) was no less seminal in that context. Therefore, this chapter closely analyses ‘Dialectique et Cinéma’ (particularly as it substantially references Immanuel Kant, Rohmer's most important source of philosophical inspiration) before moving to a new re-interpretation of ‘Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo’ in the light of that other article.
