The Invention Of Robert Bresson: The Auteur And His Market - 9780253024695

Cover -- THE INVENTION OF ROBERT BRESSON -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Alternative Institutions -- 1 Under the Aegis of Surrealism: How a Publicity Artist Became the Manager of an Independent Film Company -- 2 The Rise of the Accursed: When Bresson Was Copresident of an Avant-Garde Ciné-Club -- Part II. Vanguard Forms -- 3 Purifying Cinema: The Provocations of Faithful Adaptation and First-Person Storytelling in "Ignace de Loyola" (1948) and Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) -- 4 Theorizing the Image: Bresson's Challenge to the Realists-Sparse Set Design, Acting, and Photography from Les anges du péché (1943) to Une femme douce (1969) -- 5 Vernacularizing Rhythm: Bresson and the Shift Toward Dionysian Temporalities-Plot Structure and Editing from Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) to L'argent (1983) -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Colin Burnett
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 0253024692
• | ISBN-13: 9780253024695