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La Jetee
Chris Darke
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Description for La Jetee
Paperback. Chris Darke's study places Chris Marker's 'La Jetee' (1962) in its political, cultural and cinematic context, and provides a detailed analysis of its formal and stylistic elements, particularly Marker's use of still photography, references to other films, including Hitchcock's 'Vertigo', and its influence on other time-travel narratives. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, 50 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 137 x 190 x 8. Weight in Grams: 174.
Chris Marker's La Jetee is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, this legendary French film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling time-travel narrative has also 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 Jetee or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws ... Read more
Chris Marker's La Jetee is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, this legendary French film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling time-travel narrative has also 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 Jetee or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844576425
SKU
V9781844576425
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About Chris Darke
Chris Darke is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, UK, as well as a writer and film critic whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Sight & Sound, Film Comment and Cahiers du cinema. He is also the author of several books, including Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts (2000), and the co-curator of ... Read more
Reviews for La Jetee
Darke was a good choice to write this. ... his work to the book and puts La Jetee in context, both in terms of Marker, but also French cinema and culture of the time. He also brings a wealth of new information and insights that make this book a revelation, even to those of us who thought we had become ... Read more