TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warehime,Marja
TI  - Maurice Pialat
T2  - French Film Directors
SN  - 9781847794376
AV  - PN1998 .M387 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Pialat, Maurice,
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - France
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1, filmography and index; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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