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<p><P>Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. <b>Robert Bresson&#58; A Passion for Film</b> is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films' cinematographic, imagistic, narrative, and thematic structures, Pipolo provides a nuanced analysis of each film-including nearly 100 illustrations-elucidating Bresson's unique style as it evolved from the impassioned <b>Les Anges du p&eacute;che</b> to such disconsolate meditations on the world as <b>The Devil Probably</b> and<b> L'Argent.</b> Special attention is also given to psychosexual aspects of the films that are usually neglected. Bresson has long needed a thoroughgoing treatment by a critic worthy to the task&#58; he gets it here. From it emerges a provocative portrait of an extraordinary artist whose moral engagement and devotion t

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Author

Tony Pipolo

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199886371

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir