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Olivier Assayas
Kent Jones
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Description for Olivier Assayas
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 542. 240 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AS. Dimension: 196 x 170 x 29. Weight: 542.
Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L'Heure d'été and Carlos, he has charted an exciting path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously dealing with the 'fragmentary reality' of life in a global economy. He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics after '68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir A Post-May Adolescence (published as a companion book to this volume) and ... Read more
Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L'Heure d'été and Carlos, he has charted an exciting path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously dealing with the 'fragmentary reality' of life in a global economy. He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics after '68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir A Post-May Adolescence (published as a companion book to this volume) and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Vienna, Austria
ISBN
9783901644436
SKU
V9783901644436
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About Kent Jones
Kent Jones is an internationally recognized writer and filmmaker. He writes regularly for Film Comment and his work has appeared in many magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and catalogues. In 2007, Wesleyan University Press published Physical Evidence, a selection of his writings. In 2009, he was appointed Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation. He has worked with Martin Scorsese on numerous ... Read more
Reviews for Olivier Assayas
A thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir 'A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord', both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to ... Read more