β Gide, AndrΓ©; Frechtman, Bernard;
π Fiction
π Philosophical Library/Open Road
π English
β 205 KB
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Notes on the Cinematograph
β Scribed by Robert Bresson
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 35 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 filmβits inherent peculiarity and potentialβbut 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,...
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