Robert Bresson

by Keith Reader, Diana Holmes (Editor), Robert Ingram (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719053665
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2000
Series:	French Film Directors Series
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Keith Reader is Professor of French at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Bresson before Bresson
2. Le journal d'un curé de campagne
3. The 'prison cycle'
4. The last black and white films
5. Bresson and Dostoevsky
6. Sixth time lucky
7. The director as writer
8. Civilization and its discontents
Filmography

Editorial Reviews

Reader, with the seriousness of a convert, provides an enlightening analysis of Bresson's thirteen full-length films which could win others to the cause.
—Times Literary Supplement

Robin Buss