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La Jetée (BFI Film Classics) by Chris Darke is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is La Jetée (BFI Film Classics) about?

Chris Marker’s La Jetée is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film – which Marker described as a ’photo-novel’ – has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling narrative of post-nuclear war time-travel narrative has influenced many other films, including the Terminator series and Terry Gilliam’s Hollywood ’remake’ Twelve Monkeys (1995). But as Marker rarely gave interviews, little is really known about the origins of La Jetée or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws on rare archival material, including previously unpublished correspondence and production documents, to examine the making of the film. He explores how Marker’s only fiction film was influenced both by his early work as a writer and by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), and considers how La Jetée’s imagery can be seen to ’echo’ throughout Marker’s extraordinarily diverse oeuvre.

Who reads La Jetée (BFI Film Classics)?

Author

Chris Darke

Publisher

British Film Institute British Film Institute

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844578870

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Sports, Literary Fiction