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Maurice Pialat.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2006.Description: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847794376
  • 9781781703267
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1998 .M387 2006
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Contents:
Subject: One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson. A quintessentially realist filmmaker, who, like Bresson, was also trained as a painter, Pialat?s particular form of realism influenced an entire generation of young filmmakers in the nineties. This volume is the first book-length study of Pialat?s cinema in English. It provides an introduction to a complex and difficult director, who saw himself as a marginal and marginalised filmmaker, but whose films are deeply rooted in French society a.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN1998.3.53 W37 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn818847467

Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Maurice Pialat, the outsider; 2. Pialat and the Nouvelle Vague; 3. A family of works; 4. Family portraits I: Nous ne vieillironspas ensemble, La Gueule ouverte andPasse ton bac d'abord; 5. Family portraits II: Loulou, A nosamours and Police; 6. The saint and the artist: men apart; 7. Conclusion: paternity and Le Garçu; Filmography; Select bibliography; Index.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson. A quintessentially realist filmmaker, who, like Bresson, was also trained as a painter, Pialat?s particular form of realism influenced an entire generation of young filmmakers in the nineties. This volume is the first book-length study of Pialat?s cinema in English. It provides an introduction to a complex and difficult director, who saw himself as a marginal and marginalised filmmaker, but whose films are deeply rooted in French society a.

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