Bresson, Robert 1901-1999 creator author. Griffin, Jonathan 1906-1990 translator. text nyu 2016 1986 monographic eng fre

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x, 88 p. ; 21 cm. "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.""-- Robert Bresson ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin ; introduction by J.M.G. Le Clâezio. Motion pictures Miscellanea PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General PN 1995 B843n 2016 791.43 PER004010 PER004020 PER004000 9781681370248 (paperback) DLC 160629 20250703111805.0 128973 eng