Late Bresson and the Visual Arts : : Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment / / 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-gard...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 color, 61 halftones |
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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 |
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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. |
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. |