| ISBN |
9780968296950 (paperback) |
| Title |
Robert Bresson revised / edited by James Quandt. |
| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Published |
Toronto : Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque, 2011. |
| Description |
745 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 743-745) and filmography (p. 735-742) |
| Contents |
Introduction / James Quandt -- 'Journal d'un curé de campagne' and the stylistics of Robert Bresson / André Bazin -- The universe of Robert Bresson / Amédée Ayfre -- Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson / Susan Sontag -- Robert Bresson : L'Aventure intérieure / René Prédal -- The rhetoric of Robert Bresson : from 'Journal d'un curé de campagne' to 'Une femme douce' / P. Adams Sitney -- Cinematography vs. the cinema : Bresson's figures / P. Adams Sitney -- Bresson and Pascal : rhetorical affinities / Mirella Jona Affron -- The 'being there' of the physical world and the ejaculatory power of the eye : eroticism in the films of Robert Bresson / Jean-Michel Frodon -- Bresson in the 1930s : photography, cinema, milieu / Colin Burnett -- 'Affaires publiques' / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- On Robert Bresson's film 'Les anges du péché / Roland Barthes -- 'Les dames du Bois de Boulogne' / Tony Pipolo -- Film form/voice-over : Bresson's 'Diary of a country priest' / Nick Browne -- Bresson's 'Un condamné à mort' : the semiotics of grace / Allen Thiher -- Picking Dostoevsky's pocket : Bresson's sl(e)ight of screen / T. Jefferson Kline -- 'Pickpocket' - revisited, again / Mark Rappaport -- "The sum of a mysterious operation" : Bresson's Joan of Arc / Richard Suchenski -- "D'où cela vient-il?" : notes on three films by Robert Bresson / Keith Reader -- |
| Summary |
Drawing together more than 30 articles by leading critics and scholars, interviews and commentaries by important contemporary filmmakers, and a recent symposium on the director, Robert Bresson (Revised) is an invaluable resource for better understanding the beauty of Bresson's singular body of work. James Quandt reproduces essential contributions from the original edition, such as essays by Susan Sontag, Andre Bazin, P. Adams Sitney, and Kristin Thompson. He also includes new material by David Bordwell, Mark Rappaport, Shigehiko Hasumi, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Serge Daney, Jean-Michel Frodon, Colin Burnett, and Richard Suchenski, and by filmmakers Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. |
| Subjects |
Bresson, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation |
| French film directors |
| Motion pictures, French |
| Other Names |
Quandt, James, 1956- editor. |
| Added Corporate Names |
TIFF Cinematheque |
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