| Author | : Agnès Varda |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1617039209 |
Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave"
Concentrationary Cinema
| Author | : Griselda Pollock |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0857453521 |
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the ‘concentrationary universe’ which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? What kind of memory does the film create to warn us of the continued presence of this concentrationary universe? This international collection re-examines Resnais’s benchmark film in terms of both its political and historical context of representation of the camps and of other instances of the concentrationary in contemporary cinema. Through a range of critical readings, Concentrationary Cinema explores the cinematic aesthetics of political resistance not to the Holocaust as such but to the political novelty of absolute power represented by the concentrationary system and its assault on the human condition.
ALAIN RESNAIS
| Author | : James Monaco |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
Studies the remarkable work of Resnais, whose films include La Guerre est Fini, Stavisky, and Last Year at Marienban.
Alain Resnais
| Author | : Lynn A. Higgins |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2021-07-29 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 149683397X |
Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922–2014) did not originally set out to become a director. He trained as an actor and film editor and, during the sixty-eight years of his working life, delved into virtually every corner of filmmaking, working at one time or another as screenwriter, assistant director, camera operator and cinematographer, special effects coordinator, technical consultant, and even author of source material. From such award-winning documentaries as Van Gogh and Night and Fog to the groundbreaking dramas Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel, Resnais’s films experiment with such themes as consciousness, memory, and the imagination. Distinguishing himself from associations with the French New Wave movement, Resnais considered his films to be “anti-illusionist,” never allowing his spectators to forget they were watching a work of art. In Alain Resnais: Interviews, editor Lynn A. Higgins collects twenty-one interviews with the filmmaker, twelve of which are translated into English for the first time. Spanning his entire career from his early short subjects to his final feature film, the volume highlights Resnais’s creative strategies and principles, illuminates his place in world cinema history, and situates his work relative to the New Wave, American film, and experimental filmmaking more broadly. Like his films, the interviews collected here reveal a creator who is at once an intellectual, a philosopher, an entertainer, a craftsman, and an artist.
Alain Resnais
| Author | : Emma Wilson |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2019-01-04 |
| Genre | : 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.
Letters to a Teacher
| Author | : Sam Pickering |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : 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.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
| Author | : Marguerite Duras |
| Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 2015-06-30 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0802190618 |
The award-winning screenplay for the classic film the New York Post hailed as “overwhelming . . . a motion picture landmark.” One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics’ Award. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress visiting Japan to make a film on peace, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a stunning exploration of the influence of war on both Japanese and French culture and the conflict between love and inhumanity.
Where Film Meets Philosophy
| Author | : Hunter Vaughan |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0231161328 |
The formal techniques two classic French filmmakers developed to explore cinema's philosophical potential.
Stan Lee
| Author | : Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara |
| Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2024-07-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0711292116 |
Be inspired by the amazing life of Stan Lee, the comic book genius who created Spider-Man, The Hulk, and Iron Man! Little Stan grew up in New York City. As a child, he loved reading books, poems and newspaper strips. And when he didn't have his head in a book, he was writing stories of his own. After he graduated, Stan got his big break in the form of a job as an assistant at a small comic book publisher called Timely Comics. He started by helping the editors with their work, but before long, he was helping to write the comics. He contributed to a Captain America story but soon started to create his very own characters. From the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man to The Hulk, Stan's superheroes were innovative and exciting. Even though they were super, they felt human, flaws and all. In the years that followed, he built a solid career at Timely Comics. With Stan’s help, Timely Comics grew to become Marvel, the multi-million-dollar corporation behind some of the most successful Hollywood films, including The Avengers, Black Panther and Ant-Man. Stan created a whole universe of connecting characters and stories which leapt off the page and into the hearts of millions of fans around the world! This powerful book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the comic book creator’s life. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling biography series for kids that explores the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. This empowering series of books offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardcover and paperback versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. With rewritten text for older children, the treasuries each bring together a multitude of dreamers in a single volume. You can also collect a selection of the books by theme in boxed gift sets. Activity books and a journal provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children. Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!
