Henri-Georges Clouzot - Brossura

Lloyd, Christopher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784992860 ISBN 13: 9781784992866

Casa editrice: Manchester University Press, 2016

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Christopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784992860
• ISBN 13: 9781784992866
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 202