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Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
François Mauriac, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Vilar Reflect Upon the Modern Theatre and Its Background
Author: Yale French Studies
Author: Godard On Godard
Author: Jean-luc GodardPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306802591
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinéma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinéma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself-his own experiments, obsessions, discoveries. This book offers evidence that he may be even more original as a thinker about film than as a director. Covering the period of 1950-1967, the years of Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, this book of writings is an important document and a fascinating study of a vital stage in Godard's career. With commentary by Tom Milne and Richard Roud, and an extensive new foreword by Annette Michelson that reassesses Godard in light of his later films, here is an outrageous self-portrait by a director who, even now, continues to amaze and bedevil, and to chart new directions for cinema and for critical thought about its history.
What Is Cinema?
Author: André BazinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520242272
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
These two volumes have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism.
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
Author: Laurence SenelickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521871808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism
Author: Patrick LepetitPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620551764
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works • Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers • Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, accepting instead the titles of magician, alchemist, or--in the case of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo--witch. Their paintings, poems, and other works were created to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers. They used creative expression as the vehicle to attain what André Breton called the “supreme point,” the point at which all opposites cease to be perceived as contradictions. This supreme point is found at the heart of all esoteric doctrines, including the Great Work of alchemy, and enables communication with higher states of being. Drawing on an extensive range of writings by the surrealists and those in their circle of influence, Patrick Lepetit shows how the surrealists employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, and alchemy not simply as reference points but as significant elements of their ongoing investigations into the fundamental nature of consciousness. He provides many specific examples of esoteric influence among the surrealists, such as how Picasso’s famous Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers, how painter Victor Brauner drew from his father’s spiritualist vocation as well as the Kabbalah and tarot, and how doctor and surrealist author Pierre Mabille was a Freemason focused on finding initiatory paths where “it is possible to feel a new system connecting man with the universe.” Lepetit casts new light on the connection between key figures of the movement and the circle of adepts gathered around Fulcanelli. He also explores the relationship between surrealists and Freemasonry, Martinists, and the Elect Cohen as well as the Grail mythos and the Arthurian brotherhood.
The Illustrated Weekly of India
Author: Memories of 1968
Author: Ingo CornilsPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039119318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Some years figure more keenly in the collective memory than others. This volume explores how 1968 has come to be perceived in France, Germany, Italy, U.S., Mexico & China, & how various national preoccupations with order, political violence, individual freedom, youth culture & self-expression have been reflected.
Artaud and His Doubles
Author: Kimberly JannaronePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
DIVA radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice/div
Snapshots, and
Author: Alain Robbe-GrilletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description