Late Bresson and the visual arts : cinema, painting and Avant-Garde experiment /

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Critics have largely neglected the color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901?99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring his affinities with such avant-gard...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watkins, Raymond (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Film culture in transition.
Subjects:
Bresson, Robert > Criticism and interpretation.
Bresson, Robert
Art and motion pictures.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art et cinéma.
Film theory and criticism.
Media studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Art and motion pictures
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bresson's debt to painting: iconography, lighting, color, and framing practices
  • The turn to postwar abstraction: action painting, L'Art Informel, and Le Nouveau Réalisme
  • Bresson's flirtation with surrealism: sexual desire, masochism, and abjection
  • The design and pattern of the whole: constructivist painting and theater
  • Between constructivism and minimalism: Bresson's ambivalence toward the modern

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