Late Bresson and the Visual Arts : : Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment / / Raymond Watkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Watkins, Raymond,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 color, 61 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part 1 Classical and Postwar Painting --; 1. Bresson's Debt to Painting --; 2. The Turn to Postwar Abstraction --; Part 2 Avant-Garde Experiment --; 3. Bresson's Flirtation with Surrealism --; 4. The Design and Pattern of the Whole --; 5. Between Constructivism and Minimalism --; Illustration Credits --; Bibliography --; About the author --; Index --; Film Culture in Transition
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048533992; 9783110667318; 9783110606720; 9783110603088; 9783110603972; 9783110604252; 9783110603255
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048533992?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Raymond Watkins.

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.