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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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Bresson in Color: Reinventing History through Avant-Garde Experiment; Part 1. Classical and Postwar Painting; 1. Bresson's Debt to Painting; Iconography, Lighting, Color, and Framing Practices; 2. The Turn to Postwar Abstraction; Action Painting, L'Art Informel, and Le Nouveau Réalisme; Part 2. Avant-Garde Experiment; 3. Bresson's Flirtation with Surrealism; Sexual Desire, Masochism, and Abjection; 4. The Design and Pattern of the Whole; Constructivist Painting and Theater; 5. Between Constructivism and Minimalism.