Late Bresson and the visual arts : cinema, painting and avant-garde experiment /
Critics have largely neglected the color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901?99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring his affinities with such avant-gard...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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| Summary: | Critics have largely neglected the color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901?99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring his affinities with such avant-garde traditions as surrealism, constructivism and minimalism, and illustrating how his embodied style leads to a complex form of intermediality. Through that analysis, Raymond Watkins shows clearly that Bresson still has a good deal to teach us about cinema's distinctive ability to draw on painting, photography, sculpture and the plastic arts in general. |
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| Physical Description: | 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789462983649 946298364X |