{"product_id":"robert-bresson-tony-pipolo-9780195319798","title":"Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film","description":"Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. \u003cem\u003eRobert Bresson: A Passion for Film\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films' cinematographic, imagistic, narrative, and thematic structures, Pipolo provides a nuanced analysis of each film-including nearly 100 illustrations-elucidating Bresson's unique style as it evolved from the impassioned \u003cem\u003eLes Anges du p馗he\u003c\/em\u003e to such disconsolate meditations on the world as \u003cem\u003eThe Devil Probably\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e L'Argent.\u003c\/em\u003e Special attention is also given to psychosexual aspects of the films that are usually neglected. Bresson has long needed a thoroughgoing treatment by a critic worthy to the task: he gets it here. From it emerges a provocative portrait of an extraordinary artist whose moral engagement and devotion to the craft of filmmaking are without equal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tony Pipolo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195319796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195319798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010","brand":"Tony Pipolo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43914205298943,"sku":"9780195319798","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c0d00ea4-862d-4795-952b-7af51a5774b3.jpg?v=1680640948","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-bresson-tony-pipolo-9780195319798","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}