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Notes on the Cinematograph (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics (Publisher)
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Book Description
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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781681370248
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher NYRB Classics
Publishing Date 2016-11-15
Total Pages 112