Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Part 1 Classical and Postwar Painting
6. 1. Bresson’s Debt to Painting 35
7. 2. The Turn to Postwar Abstraction 81
8. Part 2 Avant-Garde Experiment
9. 3. Bresson’s Flirtation with Surrealism 129
10. 4. The Design and Pattern of the Whole 161
11. 5. Between Constructivism and Minimalism 207
12. Illustration Credits 233
13. Bibliography 235
14. About the author 247
15. Index 249
16. Film Culture in Transition 263