Robert Bresson
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Robert Bresson
（French film directors）
Manchester University Press, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
Note
Filmography: p. [154]-159
Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-161) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780719053658
Description
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography. -- .
Table of Contents
- Bresson before Bresson
- le journal d'un cure de campagne
- the "prison cycle"
- the last black and white films
- Bresson and Dostoevsky
- sixth time lucky
- the director
- civilization and its discontents.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780719053665
Description
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Bresson before Bresson
2. Le journal d'un cure de campagne
3. The 'prison cycle'
4. The last black and white films
5. Bresson and Dostoevsky
6. Sixth time lucky
7. The director as writer
8. Civilization and its discontents
Filmography -- .
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