{"product_id":"neither-god-nor-master-brian-price-9780816654628","title":"Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics","description":"The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Country Priest\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), \u003ci\u003eThe Trial of Joan of Arc\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eThe Devil, Probably\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), and \u003ci\u003eL'Argent\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), has long been thought of as a transcendental filmmaker preoccupied with questions of grace and predestination and little interested in the problems of the social world. This book is the first to view Bresson's work in an altogether different context. Rather than a religious--or spiritual--filmmaker, Bresson is revealed as an artist steeped in radical, revolutionary politics. \u003cbr\u003eSituating Bresson in radical and aesthetic political contexts, from surrealism to situationism, \u003ci\u003eNeither God nor Master\u003c\/i\u003e shows how his early style was a model for social resistance. We then see how, after May 1968, his films were in fact a series of reflections on the failure of revolution in France--especially as \"failure\" is understood in relation to Bresson's chosen literary precursors, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, and Russian revolutionary culture of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003eRestoring Bresson to the radical political culture from which he emerged--and to which he remained faithful--Price offers a major revision of the reputation of one of the most celebrated figures in the history of French film. In doing so, he raises larger philosophical questions about the efficacy of revolutionary practices and questions about interpretation and metaphysical tendencies of film historical research that have, until now, gone largely untested.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081665462X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816654628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 187","brand":"Brian Price","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947332108543,"sku":"9780816654628","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f3764f26-5e47-41d2-a718-4dee7b0434fc.jpg?v=1681518093","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neither-god-nor-master-brian-price-9780816654628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}