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Colin Burnett - The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market - 9780253024695 - V9780253024695
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The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market

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Description for The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 35 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.

Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901–1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Jean-Luc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253024695
SKU
V9780253024695
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About Colin Burnett
Colin Burnett is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published articles in Film History, Transnational Cinema(s), Studies in French Cinema, The Journal of American Studies, and New Review of Film and Television Studies, and written essays for Robert Bresson (Revised), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, Directory of World Cinema: France, ... Read more

Reviews for The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market
Colin Burnett's The Invention of Robert Bresson is a breathtaking act of scholarship. The portrait of Bresson that emerges here, in biographical, cultural and aesthetic terms, is the most complete one that we have to date and will likely ever see. Burnett is as concerned to trace Bresson's relation to figures like Max Ernst as he is to show us ... Read more

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