Robert Bresson

A Passion for Film

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by Tony Pipolo

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Robert Bresson

Keywords

Robert Bresson

Publishing date

2010

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 407 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-531980-4

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Book Presentation:
The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors—models, as he called them—and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot of the Lake. From the beginning to the end of his career, Bresson dedicated himself to making movies in which nothing is superfluous and everything is always at stake.

Contents:
INTRODUCTION ; 1. Rules of the Game (Les Anges du peche and Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne) ; 2. Author, Author (Journal d'un cure de campagne) ; 3. Triumphs of the Will (Un condamne a mort s'est echappe and Pickpocket) ; 4. The Young Virgins of the Provinces: I (Proces de Jeanne d'Arc) ; 5. The Middle of the Road (Au hasard Balthazar) ; 6. The Young Virgins of the Provinces: II (Mouchette) ; 7. Dostoevsky in Paris (Une femme douce and Quatre Nuits d'un reveur) ; 8. The Ultimate Geste (Lancelot du Lac) ; 9. Angels and Demons (Le Diable Probablement and L'Argent) ; EPILOGUE ; INDEX

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