Late Bresson and the Visual Arts

Late Bresson and the Visual Arts

Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment

  • Autor: Watkins, Raymond
  • Editor: Amsterdam University Press
  • Colección: Film Culture in Transition
  • ISBN: 9789462983649
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048533992
  • Lugar de publicación:  Amsterdam , Holanda
  • Año de publicación digital: 2018
  • Mes: Noviembre
  • Páginas: 298
  • Idioma: Ingles
Critics have largely neglected the colour films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901—99). To correct that oversight, this studypresents a revised and revitalised Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring hisaffinities with such avant-garde traditions as surrealism, constructivism, and minimalism, and illustrating how his embodied style leadsto a complex form of intermediality. Through that analysis, Raymond Watkins shows clearly that Bresson still has a good deal to teach us about cinema’s distinctive ability to draw on painting, photography, sculpture, and the plastic arts in general.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
    • Bresson in Color: Reinventing History through Avant-Garde Experiment
  • Part 1. Classical and Postwar Painting
    • 1. Bresson’s Debt to Painting
      • Iconography, Lighting, Color, and Framing Practices
    • 2. The Turn to Postwar Abstraction
      • Action Painting, L’Art Informel, and Le Nouveau Réalisme
  • Part 2. Avant-Garde Experiment
    • 3. Bresson’s Flirtation with Surrealism
      • Sexual Desire, Masochism, and Abjection
    • 4. The Design and Pattern of the Whole
      • Constructivist Painting and Theater
    • 5. Between Constructivism and Minimalism
      • Bresson’s Ambivalence Toward the Modern
  • Illustration Credits
  • Bibliography
  • About the author
  • Index

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