Research Catalog

Title

Notes on the cinematograph / Robert Bresson ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin ; introduction by J.M.G. Le Clézio.

Author

Bresson, Robert

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

Griffin, Jonathan, 1906-1990

Description

x, 88 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"A key influence on the French New Wave and the director of such iconic works as Pickpocket and A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson is one of the central figures of French cinema. Notes on the Cinematograph is not only his definitive treatise on film--its inherent peculiarity and potential--but an ascetic meditation on how art transcends, and is transformed by, the senses. Bresson upends inherited truths with empirical ones, calling for film to divest itself of the trappings of theater in order to come into its own as an art form. While theater is capable of simulation, film can capture immanent being. Therefore, he argues, the two forms are innately at odds: 'No marriage of theater and cinematography without both being exterminated.' To this end, Bresson rechristens his actors 'models' and conducts them through grueling shoots where they repeat their lines and movements until he deems them vacant of actorly intention and charged, instead, with inscrutability: 'A model. Enclosed in his mysterious appearance. He has brought home to him all of him that was outside. He is there, behind that forehead, those cheeks'"--

Series Statement

NYRB classics

Uniform Title

• Notes sur le cinématographe. English
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Notes sur le cinématographe.

Subject

• Motion pictures > Miscellanea

Note

• Translation of: Notes sur le cineḿatographe.
• Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Quartet Books, 1986.

Call Number

MFLF 17-1555

ISBN

• 9781681370248
• 1681370247

LCCN

2016019370

OCLC

939994720

Author

Bresson, Robert, author.

Title

Notes on the cinematograph / Robert Bresson ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin ; introduction by J.M.G. Le Clézio.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

NYRB classics

New York Review Books classics.

Added Author

Griffin, Jonathan, 1906-1990, translator.

Other Editions:

Reproduction of (manifestation): Bresson, Robert. Notes sur le cinématographe. English. Notes on the cinematographer. London ; New York : Quartet Books, 1986, c1975 0704334968 (DLC) 88182300 (OCoLC)21081242

Research Call Number

MFLF 17-1555