Description |
1 online resource (x, 407 pages) : illustrations |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 395-399) and index. |
Contents |
Rules of the game : Les anges du péche, Les dames du bois de Boulogne -- Author, author : Journal d'un curé de campagne -- Triumphs of the will : Un condamné à mort s'est échappé, Pickpocket -- The young virgins of the provinces I : Procès de Jeanne d'Arc -- The middle of the road : Au hasard Balthazar -- The young virgins of the provinces II : Mouchette -- Dostoevsky in Paris : Une femme douce, Quatre nuits d'un rêveur -- The ultimate geste : Lancelot du Lac -- Angels and demons : Le Diable Probablement, L'argent -- Afterword. |
Summary |
Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films' cinematographic, imagistic, narrative, and thematic structures, Pi. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Bresson, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bresson, Robert. (OCoLC)fst00015247
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Bresson, Robert.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Pipolo, Tony. Robert Bresson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195319804 (DLC) 2009018997 (OCoLC)313664487 |
ISBN |
9780199717835 (electronic bk.) |
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0199717834 (electronic bk.) |
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