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Henri-Georges Clouzot /

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lloyd, Christopher, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2007]
Colección:French film directors.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystère Picasso). Clouzot's films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
ISBN:9781847791771
1847791778
9781781701065
1781701067