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Paperback. Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers. This title traces the development and transformation of Marker's work from the late 1940s, when he began to work as a poet, novelist and critic for the French journal "Esprit", through to the 1990s, and the release of his most recent works. Num Pages: 256 pages, 147 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers of our time. In landmark films such as "Letter from Siberia" (1958), "La Jetee" (1962), "Sans Soleil" (1982) and "Level Five" (1996), he overturned the conventions of the cinema, confounding normal distinctions between documentary and fiction, private and public concerns, writing and visual recording, and the still and moving image. Yet these works are only the better-known elements of a protean career that to date has spanned the second half of the twentieth century and encompassed writing, photography, film-making, video, television and the expanding field of digital multimedia. Catherine ... Read more
Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers of our time. In landmark films such as "Letter from Siberia" (1958), "La Jetee" (1962), "Sans Soleil" (1982) and "Level Five" (1996), he overturned the conventions of the cinema, confounding normal distinctions between documentary and fiction, private and public concerns, writing and visual recording, and the still and moving image. Yet these works are only the better-known elements of a protean career that to date has spanned the second half of the twentieth century and encompassed writing, photography, film-making, video, television and the expanding field of digital multimedia. Catherine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861892232
SKU
V9781861892232
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Ref
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About Catherine Lupton
Catherine Lupton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Roehampton University.
Reviews for Chris Marker
a gentle, firm, lucid tracking-down of the greatest ever movie essayist ... There could not be a better introduction
David Thomson The Week sedulously researched and engaging ... a thoroughly necessary guide' - Modern Painters 'Her prose is refreshlingly jargon-free ... Lupton draws thematic connections between isolated moments in Marker's films with an ease born of deep familiarity, and ... Read more
David Thomson The Week sedulously researched and engaging ... a thoroughly necessary guide' - Modern Painters 'Her prose is refreshlingly jargon-free ... Lupton draws thematic connections between isolated moments in Marker's films with an ease born of deep familiarity, and ... Read more