The Art of Cinema
A Collection of Cocteau's Writings on Film
by Jean Cocteau
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For more than 30 years, Jean Cocteau maintained a passionate affair with the moving image. To him, film was a visionary dream-like medium, a glimpse of the phantoms that haunted the poet throughout his life. This posthumous collection of writings illuminates Cocteau's work for the cinema, with detailed discussions of his aims, responses to criticism and his reflections on the relationship between poetry, theatre and film. He also comments on the movie stars he admires - Marlene Dietrich, James Dean, Brigitte Bardot - together with such great directors as Georges Franju, Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles.
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> From the same author:
Cocteau on the film (1972)
Conversations with Jean Cocteau
by Jean Cocteau
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Professional Secrets (1970)
An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau
by Jean Cocteau
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Two Screenplays (1968)
The Blood of a Poet / The Testament of Orpheus
by Jean Cocteau
Subject: One Film > The Blood of a Poet, Testament of Orpheus
The Holy Terrors (1966)
(Les Enfants terribles)
by Jean Cocteau
Subject: One Film > The Terrible Children
> On a related topic:
On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre (2008)
Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
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