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1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Film culture in transition
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Bresson's debt to painting: iconography, lighting, color, and framing practices -- The turn to postwar abstraction: action painting, L'Art Informel, and Le Nouveau Réalisme -- Bresson's flirtation with surrealism: sexual desire, masochism, and abjection -- The design and pattern of the whole: constructivist painting and theater -- Between constructivism and minimalism: Bresson's ambivalence toward the modern |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bresson, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bresson, Robert. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Art and motion pictures.
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Art and motion pictures. |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Watkins, Raymond. Late Bresson and the visual arts. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018] 9789462983649 946298364X (OCoLC)1019650974 |
| ISBN |
9789048533992 (electronic book) |
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9048533996 (electronic book) |
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9789462983649 |
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946298364X |
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