The Invention of Robert Bresson
The Auteur and His Market
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Performing Arts
| Author: | Colin Burnett | ISBN: | 9780253025012 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press | Publication: | December 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Indiana University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Colin Burnett |
| ISBN: | 9780253025012 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Publication: | December 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Indiana University Press |
| Language: | English |
Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901–1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Jean-Luc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury France.
Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901–1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Jean-Luc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury France.
