Jean Cocteau - Brossura

Williams, James S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0719058848 ISBN 13: 9780719058844

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as those often neglected or little known.Jean Cocteau is not only one of French cinema's greatest and most influential auteurs whose work covered all the major genres, but also an experimenter, collaborator, theorist and all-round ambassador of film.This lucid account provides a complete introduction to Cocteau's cinematic project in the context of his entire oeuvre, detailed analysis of individual films, and a thematic engagement with all his cinema from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.The Cocteau that emerges is at once a materialist filmmaker and visionary who is committed to realism in all its guises and reveals the wonder and mystery of what he called "the cinematograph."

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Recensione:

A highly absorbing account of Cocteau's colourful, yet troubled life leaves the reader eager to (re)visit the work of one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century. French Studies This sturdy, compact and fast-moving survey of Cocteau's life and work runs from his precocious false start as a poet in the style of Anna de Noailles, through his reinvention as a radical modernist after inspirational meetings with Diaghilev and Picasso, and the fulfilment of his new 'life project' in his subsequent long career as a poet working in verse, prose, theatre, art and film ... neatly illustrated and requires no knowledge of French Forum for Modern Language Studies another welcome addition to the still relatively limited critical literature on this important figure ... this is an approachable and well-illustrated text, which will cause its readers to look at Cocteau in a new and more favourable light, and is an important contribution to the reassessment of the author that is currently under way. Modern Language Review Well-written and well-paced ... A good summation of Cocteau's significance as a gay artist. --The Gay and Lesbian Review

L'autore:

James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0719058848
• ISBN 13: 9780719058844
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 223