Robert Bresson
By: edited by James Quandt.
Contributors: Quandt, James, 1956-; Cinematheque Ontario.
Series: Cinémathèque Ontario monographs ;; no. 2
Publisher: Cinematheque Ontario; Cinematheque
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
Subjects: Bresson, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "French master Robert Bresson is perhaps the most revered living film director. His body of work is small - thirteen features and one short film, made over five decades - but it has established him as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.".

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