Colin Burnett

The Invention of Robert Bresson

The Auteur and His Market

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Produktbeschreibung

Colin Burnett is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published articles in Film History, Transnational Cinema(s), Studies in French Cinema, The Journal of American Studies, and New Review of Film and Television Studies, and written essays for Robert Bresson (Revised), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, Directory of World Cinema: France, A Companion to Media Authorship, and Arnheim for Film and Media Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780253024862
• ISBN-10: 0253024862
• Artikelnr.: 45002906

Autorenporträt

Colin Burnett

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: 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 Co-President of an
Avant-Garde Ciné-Club
Part Two: 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