Robert Bresson

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Edited by James Quandt

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Robert Bresson

Keywords

Robert Bresson

Publishing date

1999
   > See the newer edition (2012)

Publisher

Cinematheque Ontario

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 784 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¼ inches (16.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-9682969-1-2
978-0-9682969-1-2

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Book Presentation:
Robert Bresson, published in 1998, remains one of the most acclaimed and thorough examinations of the French director’s vision and style. Robert Bresson (Revised) reproduces essential contributions from the original edition, including essays by Susan Sontag, André Bazin, P. Adams Sitney, and Kristin Thompson, and features new or original material by David Bordwell, Mark Rappaport, Shigehiko Hasumi, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Serge Daney, Jean-Michel Frodon, Colin Burnett, Richard Suchenski, and filmmakers Jean-Pierre Gorin and the Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc. With more than thirty key articles by leading critics and scholars, interviews, commentaries by important contemporary filmmakers, and an illuminating symposium on the director’s current stature, Robert Bresson (Revised) is an invaluable volume for anyone seeking to understand the director’s austere perfectionism and the beauty of his singular body of work.

Published by the Toronto International Film Festival and distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.

About the Author:
James Quandt, senior programmer at Cinematheque Ontario, is also the editor of Kon Ichikawa and Shohei Imamura.

Press Reviews:
" . . . a fine, fat volume of appreciations and interviews . . . " -- Richard Corliss, Time

" . . . important . . . a very welcome work of reference for professors, librarians and all those interested in the oeuvre of Bresson." -- Le Figaro

" . . . impressive anthology . . . " -- Molly Haskell, Film Comment

See the complete filmography of Robert Bresson on the website: IMDB ...