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

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

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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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Watkins, Raymond,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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