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Alain Robbe-Grillet
John Phillips
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Description for Alain Robbe-Grillet
Paperback. This lucid, comprehensive and fascinating study shows Robbe-Grillet's contribution to the evolution of the cinematic art both in France and internationally to have been considerably more important than previously acknowledged. Series: French Film Directors. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the present, the book traces lines of influence and continuity throughout his work, which is shown to exhibit a consistent preoccupation with an identifiable body of themes, motifs and structures. Close readings of all the films are skilfully combined with a thematic approach, ranging across the entire filmic corpus. The book also contains chapters on cinematography and technique. Now available in paperback, this lucid, comprehensive ... Read more
Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the present, the book traces lines of influence and continuity throughout his work, which is shown to exhibit a consistent preoccupation with an identifiable body of themes, motifs and structures. Close readings of all the films are skilfully combined with a thematic approach, ranging across the entire filmic corpus. The book also contains chapters on cinematography and technique. Now available in paperback, this lucid, comprehensive ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
French Film Directors
Condition
New
Weight
229g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784991081
SKU
V9781784991081
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About John Phillips
John Phillips is Emeritus Professor of French at London Metropolitan University -- .
Reviews for Alain Robbe-Grillet
This timely and extremely well-researched study persuasively contends that Alain Robbe-Grillet's somewhat neglected filmic oeuvre has made a much more substantial contribution to the evolution of French cinema than has hitherto been acknowledged, and attempts to rehabilitate his reputation as an innovative avant-gardist film-maker who has expanded the language of contemporary cinema. , Edmund J. Smyth, Manchester Metropolitan University, French ... Read more