Author : Sam Pickering
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780802142276
Ten essays on literature, competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth from the teacher who inspired "The Dead Poet's Society" reveal the joys of teaching and the power of innovation over stale formalism.
Author : Jean-Louis Leutrat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838716750
A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel' enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps, 'last year', A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, 'the film's deviations are', for Jean-Louis Leutrat, 'as complex as those of the human heart'.
Author : Christoph Grunenberg
Publisher : Wienand Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Année dernière à Marienbad (Motion picture)
ISBN : 9783868323061
The 1961 film Last Year in Marienbad broke with traditional structures of time, location, and causality like no other film before it. The director, Alain Resnais, played with an artistic language in which the style itself became the content. In doing so, he defined an appreciation of art that has extended into the present day: Nouvelle Vague. The catalogue examines the influence of the film on the fine arts, on Pop culture and fashion, garnering international approaches from the beginning of the twentieth century through to the present.
Author : Jean-Louis Leutrat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838716769
A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel' enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her lover. Perhaps, 'last year', A promised X she would leave with him. Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, 'the film's deviations are', for Jean-Louis Leutrat, 'as complex as those of the human heart'.
Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838714499
Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled libido with its liberated counterpart. Luis Bunuel was catapulted into cinematic history by his groundbreaking Dali collaboration, Un Chien Andalou, in 1929, but it is Belle de Jour (1967) which inaugurates the extraordinary late phase of his work. It is a film shimmering with reflections on truth, fiction and fantasy, in addition to caustic social insight, as it tells the story of a woman clearing her mind, perhaps, of its ghosts.
Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526141140
Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais' films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond. Yet it also offers a highly personal and detailed engagement with individual images and scenes in Resnais' films. A passionate and partial defence of Resnais' work, old and new, this volume stands apart in its attention to the more tangible and moving pleasures of his films, their pathos, rigour and visual beauty.
Author : H. Ford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137283521
A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic experimentation.
Author : Roy Armes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027280754
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922 –2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. His first involvement with the cinema was in the early 1960’s; scripting one of the most controversial films of the decade, L’Année dernière à Marienbad , directed by Alain Resnais. In this study the focus lies on the cinema of Robbe-Grillet . Each chapters deals with a specific film and a specific aspect of his work.
Author : Dorota Ostrowska
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Examining connections between the cinematic and literary avant-gardes, this book locates France's filmmaking revolution as a part of a wider re-evaluation of the mid-20th century.
Author : Rupert J. Read
Publisher : Routledge Research in Aesthetics
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781138596023
Introduction: film as freedom: the meaning of film as philosophy -- Implicating the narrator, implicating the audience: Waltz with Bashir and Apocalypto -- How to represent a past we would rather forget: Hiroshima mon amour and Last year at Marienbad -- Learning from conceptually impossible versions of our world: Never let me go and The road -- When melancholia is exactly what is called for: Melancholia and Solaris -- Gravity's arc; or gravity: A space odyssey -- The fantasy of absolute safety through absolute power: The lord of the rings trilogy and Avatar -- Conclusion: what have we learnt?
