The Invention of Robert Bresson : The Auteur and His Market / Colin Burnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Colin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bresson, Robert--Criticism and interpretation.

Bresson, Robert.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury France.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253025012

025302501X

OCLC:

966314925