Alain Resnais (eBook)

Interviews

Lynn A. Higgins (Herausgeber)

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2021 | EPUB SINGLE
234 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-3395-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;anti-illusionist,"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
• Reihe/Serie: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
• Co-Autor: T. Jefferson Kline
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Schlagworte: Alan Ayckbourn • experimental documentary • Experimental filmmaking • Film Directors • French Cinema • French culture • French New Wave • French New Wave/Nouvelle Vague Cinema • Hiroshima mon Amour • Last Year at Marienbad • Left Bank Filmmakers • Montage • Night and Fog • Nouvelle Vague Cinema • Nuit et Brouillard • Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) • On Connaît la chanson • On Connaît la chanson (Same Old Song) • Same Old Song • theater-to-screen adaptation
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-3395-3 / 1496833953
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3395-2 / 9781496833952