Title & Author:

Robert Bresson / edited by James Quandt.

Publication:

Toronto : Cinematheque Ontario, 1998.

Description:

612 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 24 cm

Series:

Cinémathèque Ontario monographs ; no. 2

Notes:
Filmography: p. 593-600.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-611).
Introduction / James Quandt -- The last filmmaker : a local, interim report / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Le journal d'un curé de campagne and the stylistics of Robert Bresson / André Bazin -- The universe of Robert Bresson / Amédée Ayfre -- The spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson / Susan Sontag -- Robert Bresson : l'aventure intérieure / René Prédal -- The rhetoric of Robert Bresson : from Le journal d'un curé de campagne to Une femme douce / P. Adams Sitney -- Cinematography vs. the cinema : Bresson's figures / P. Adams Sitney -- Bresson and Pascal : rhetorical affinities / Mirella Jona Affron -- Affaires publiques / William Johnson -- Rules of the game : on Bresson's Les anges du péché / Tony Pipolo -- On Robert Bresson's film Les anges du péché / Roland Barthes -- Film form/voice-over : Bresson's The diary of a country priest / Nick Browne -- Bresson's Un condamné à mort : the semiotics of grace / Allen Thiher -- Picking Dostoevsky's pocket : Bresson's sl(e)ight of screen / T. Jefferson Kline -- Breaking silence (forty years later) / Babette Mangolte -- "D'où cela vient-il?" : notes on three films by Robert Bresson / Keith Reader -- Bresson and music / Donald Richie -- Sound as symbol in Mouchette / Lindley Hanlon -- Bresson, Dostoevsky / Mireille Latil Le Dantec -- The sheen of armour, the whinnies of horses : sparse parametric style in Lancelot du lac / Kristin Thompson -- Despair abounding : the recent films of Robert Bresson / Michael Dempsey -- A stranger's posture : notes on Bresson's late films / Kent Jones -- The devil probably : the redemption of despair / Richard Roud -- L'argent / Alberto Moravia -- The negative vision of Robert Bresson / Raymond Durgnat -- The question / interview by Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Delahaye -- Robert Bresson, possibly / interview by Paul Schrader -- I seek not description but vision : Robert Bresson on L'argent / interview by Michel Ciment -- Burel & Bresson / interview by Rui Nogueira -- Filmmakers on Bresson -- Filmography -- Selected bibliography / compiled by Robin Macdonald.

ISBN:

0968296912 (paperback)
9780968296912 (paperback)

Subject:

Bresson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Bresson, Robert

Form/genre:

Filmographies.
Interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Quandt, James, 1956-
Cinematheque Ontario.
Cinémathèque Ontario monographs ; no. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223622
Call No.: PN1998.3.B7 R6 1998
Status: Available