Robert Bresson Revised

Author : Cinematheque Ontario
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780968296912
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Bresson (Revised) written by Cinematheque Ontario and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French filmmaker Robert Bresson is perhaps the most revered living film director. Awed, inspired and sometimes mystified by the beauty and austere perfectionism of Bresson's style, critics and directors have been moved to passionate debate about his unique ideas on the use of sound, actors, editing and music. ""Robert Bresson"" is the first collection of essays in English on the director in three decades. A thorough examination of his vision and style, it draws together over twenty important articles by leading critics and scholars; three essential interviews; and the commentaries of over thirty directors on Bresson's importance and influence. Publised by Cinematheque Ontario. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.

Author : Keith Reader
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526141760
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Bresson written by Keith Reader and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Bresson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681377802
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 written by Robert Bresson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a collection of interviews with a French cinematic titan—covering subjects such as adaptation, the effects of capitalism on art, and the importance of intuition—selected from a period of four decades. Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic masterpieces as Pickpocket, A Man Escaped, Mouchette, and L’Argent, was one of the most influential directors in the history of French film, as well as one of the most stubbornly individual: He insisted on the use of nonprofessional actors; he shunned the “advances” of Cinerama and CinemaScope (and the work of most of his predecessors and peers); and he minced no words about the damaging influence of capitalism and the studio system on the still-developing—in his view—art of film. Bresson on Bresson collects the most significant interviews that Bresson gave (carefully editing them before they were released) over the course of his forty-year career to reveal both the internal consistency and the consistently exploratory character of his body of work. Successive chapters are dedicated to each of his fourteen films, as well as to the question of literary adaptation, the nature of the soundtrack, and to Bresson’s one book, the great aphoristic treatise Notes on the Cinematograph. Throughout, his close and careful consideration of his own films and of the art of film is punctuated by such telling mantras as “Sound...invented silence in cinema,” “It’s the film that...gives life to the characters—not the characters that give life to the film,” and (echoing the Bible) “Every idle word shall be counted.” Bresson’s integrity and originality earned him the admiration of younger directors from Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette to Olivier Assayas. And though Bresson’s movies are marked everywhere by an air of intense deliberation, these interviews show that they were no less inspired by a near-religious belief in the value of intuition, not only that of the creator but that of the audience, which he claims to deeply respect: “It’s always ready to feel before it understands. And that’s how it should be.”

Author : James Quandt
Publisher : Toronto International Film Festival
ISBN 13 : 9780968296950
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Bresson written by James Quandt and published by Toronto International Film Festival. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brian Price
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816654611
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neither God Nor Master written by Brian Price and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's doctoral dissertation--New York University.

Author : Paul Schrader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969146
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendental Style in Film written by Paul Schrader and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. The new edition updates Schrader’s theoretical framework and extends his theory to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia), Béla Tarr (Hungary), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), among others. This key work by one of our most searching directors and writers is widely cited and used in film and art classes. With evocative prose and nimble associations, Schrader consistently urges readers and viewers alike to keep exploring the world of the art film.

Author : Colin Burnett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025302501X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Robert Bresson written by Colin Burnett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901–1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Jean-Luc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury France.

Author : Robert Bresson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557133656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Cinematographer written by Robert Bresson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only published writing by the great French flimmaker, Robert Bresson.

Author : Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292776241
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sculpting in Time written by Andrey Tarkovsky and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

Author : Henri Cartier-Bresson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869307886
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decisive Moment written by Henri Cartier-Bresson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous books in the history of photography, this volume assembles Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years.