TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morari,Codruţa
TI  - The Bressonians: French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship 
SN  - 9781785335723
AV  - PN1998.3.B755 M67 2017
U1  - 791.4302/33092 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - France
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE “Il faut un auteur!” Robert Bresson and the Making of the Author --; CHAPTER TWO An Elusive Style --; CHAPTER THREE Kinsmen --; CHAPTER FOUR The Ethics of Duplicity --; CHAPTER FIVE Working Artists --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema? The Bressonians provides an answer in the form of a strikingly original study of Bresson and his influence on the work of filmmakers Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat. Extending the discourse of authorship beyond the idea of a singular visionary, it explores how the imperatives of excellence function within cinema’s pluralistic community. Bresson’s example offered both an artistic legacy and a creative burden within which filmmakers reckoned in different, often arduous, and altogether compelling ways
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785335723?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785335723
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785335723/original
ER  -