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A Post–May Adolescence – Letter to Alice Debord
Olivier Assayas
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Paperback. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236. Letter to Alice Debord. 90 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AS. Dimension: 196 x 170 x 13. Weight: 236.
Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, L'Eau froide. The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This ... Read more
Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, L'Eau froide. The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien
Number of pages
90
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
235g
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
Vienna, Austria
ISBN
9783901644443
SKU
V9783901644443
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About Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas (born 1955) is one of the most widely celebrated filmmakers working today. He began his career in 1980 as a critic for the legendary Cahiers du Cinéma and has since published several books, such as Conversation avec Ingmar Bergman and Éloge de Kenneth Anger. In 2009, Gallimard published Présences, a collection of his essays. His new film Aprés-Mai ... Read more
Reviews for A Post–May Adolescence – Letter to Alice Debord
Assayas' voice is clear, urgent, and persuasive. For him the matter at hand, the subject that keeps slipping away, is the story of how he came to know the work of Guy Debord. This is nothing less that the story of his life.
Film Quarterly A thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and ... Read more
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