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Late Bresson and the Visual Arts
Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment
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Raymond Watkins
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
This book looks at the largely neglected colour films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901—99) that can teach us about cinema’s distinctive ability to draw on painting, photography, sculpture, and the plastic arts in general.
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Watkins Raymond :
Raymond Watkins currently teaches at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature and cinema from The University of Iowa, and has published in Cinema Journal, Studies in French Cinema, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
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"Watkins's approach refreshingly expands the scope of Bressonian scholarship ... Late Bresson and the Visual Arts sheds light on a part of the filmmaker’s career that has often been unjustly neglected, by way of commendable, high-level visual and intertextual analysis." - Marco Grosoli, H-France Review, Volume 20 (2020) "In his excellent book on Late Bresson and the Visual Arts (Amsterdam University Press 2018), Raymond Watkins argues that a blue-painted door evokes the work of Yves Klein. ... Watkins discusses the centrality of Schöffer's Lux 1 piece in the art museum sequence of Une femme douce = I fully concur with Watkins's reading." - Roland-François Lack, University College London, The Cine-Tourist
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
9 - Part 1 Classical and Postwar Painting
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1. Bresson’s Debt to Painting
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2. The Turn to Postwar Abstraction
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3. Bresson’s Flirtation with Surrealism
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4. The Design and Pattern of the Whole
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5. Between Constructivism and Minimalism
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Illustration Credits
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Bibliography
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About the author
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Index
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Film Culture in Transition
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 14, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048533992
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
272
Illustrations:
60
Coloured Illustrations:
14
eBook ISBN:
9789048533992
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
