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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: 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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