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"[A] comprehensive and informative critical evaluation of the Portuguese filmmaker's body of work."--Strictly Film School


"An aristocratic provocateur who most often comes up with aggressively eccentric but beautifully logical ways of adapting plays and novels, this 19th-century modernist needs an erudite explicator and finds one in Johnson."--Film Comment


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CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsThe Early Years: 1931–65The Tetralogy of Frustrated LoveTo the LimitBonfire of VanitiesVoyages“A Mental Conception of Cinema”: An Interview by Jean A. GiliAn Interview with Manoel de Oliveira By Ruy GardnierFilmographyBibliographyIndexBack cover

Manoel de Oliveira

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/07/2007
      ISBN13: 9780252074424, 978-0252074424
      ISBN10: 0252074424
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      Biography: arts and entertainment Filmmaking and production

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "[A] comprehensive and informative critical evaluation of the Portuguese filmmaker's body of work."--Strictly Film School


      "An aristocratic provocateur who most often comes up with aggressively eccentric but beautifully logical ways of adapting plays and novels, this 19th-century modernist needs an erudite explicator and finds one in Johnson."--Film Comment


      Table of Contents
      CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsThe Early Years: 1931–65The Tetralogy of Frustrated LoveTo the LimitBonfire of VanitiesVoyages“A Mental Conception of Cinema”: An Interview by Jean A. GiliAn Interview with Manoel de Oliveira By Ruy GardnierFilmographyBibliographyIndexBack cover

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