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The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism
Philip Mosley
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Paperback. Series: Directors' Cuts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid ... Read more
The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Directors' Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163293
SKU
V9780231163293
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About Philip Mosley
Philip Mosley is professor of English and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many works, including Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity (2001) and a translation from French of The Book of the Snow by Francois Jacqmin, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Reviews for The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism
A brilliant account of the Dardenne brothers' cinema... their politically engaged social realism and concern with the pauperized victims of global capital are beautifully complemented by the precise lucidity of the author's prose, the nuance of his textual analysis, and his provocative but non-dogmatic social theory.
David James, University of Southern California An excellent introduction to the Dardenne brothers' ... Read more
David James, University of Southern California An excellent introduction to the Dardenne brothers' ... Read more