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Beschreibung
Now available in paperback, this book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les diaboliques, Le mystère Picasso).

Clouzot's films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment.
Now available in paperback, this book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les diaboliques, Le mystère Picasso).

Clouzot's films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment.
Über den Autor
Christopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Clouzot and the cinema
2. Occupation and its discontents
3. Reconstruction and retribution: Clouzot's post-war films
4. Beyond genre: Le Salaire de la peur
5. Suspense and surveillance: Les Diaboliques and Les Espions
6. Filming Picasso and Karajan
7. The final films
Conclusion
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: French Film Directors Series
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784992866
ISBN-10: 1784992860
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lloyd, Christopher
Redaktion: Holmes, Diana
Ingram, Robert
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
French Film Directors Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Lloyd
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2016
Gewicht: 0,221 kg
Artikel-ID: 104684115

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