02184cam a2200289 i 4500001000700000003000800007005001700015008004100032020003000073020003600103040002800139041001300167050002400180082001100204084004500215100004100260240004200301245013700343264004700480264001200527300002300539440003500562520116000597650003401757650005501791700004801846128973BJBSDDR20250703111805.0160629t20161986nyu           000 0 eng    a9781681370248 (paperback)  z9781681370255 (electronic book)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC1 aenghfre14aPN 1995bB843n 201600a791.43  aPER004010aPER004020aPER0040002bisacsh1 aBresson, Robert,d1901-1999eauthor.10aNotes sur le cinematographe.lEnglish10aNotes on the cinematograph /cRobert Bresson ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin ; introduction by J.M.G. Le Clâezio. 1aNew York :bNew York Review Books,c[2016] 4cÃ1986  ax, 88 p. ;c21 cm.0 aNew York Review Books classics  a"A key influence on the French New Wave and the director of such iconic works as Pickpocket and A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson is one of the central figures of French cinema. Notes on the Cinematograph is not only his definitive treatise on film--its inherent peculiarity and potential--but an ascetic meditation on how art transcends, and is transformed by, the senses.  Bresson upends inherited truths with empirical ones, calling for film to divest itself of the trappings of theater in order to come into its own as an art form. While theater is capable of simulation, film can capture immanent being. Therefore, he argues, the two forms are innately at odds: "No marriage of theater and cinematography without both being exterminated."     To this end, Bresson rechristens his actors "models" and conducts them through grueling shoots where they repeat their lines and movements until he deems them vacant of actorly intention and charged, instead, with inscrutability: "A model. Enclosed in his mysterious appearance. He has brought home to him all of him that was outside. He is there, behind that forehead, those cheeks.""--cProvided by publisher. 0aMotion picturesxMiscellanea. 7aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.2bisacsh1 aGriffin, Jonathan,d1906-1990,etranslator.