Description
Book SynopsisA major rethinking of Robert Bresson, establishing him as a radical, political artist.
Trade Review"Neither God nor Master, which resituates Robert Bresson’s films in their complex relationships with literary, cinematic, and mass culture, addresses a major gap in film criticism. This exemplary book will reshape future debates about Bresson, and his place, not only in the French cinematic canon, but in French culture." —Scott Durham, Northwestern University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Crime as a Form of Liberation: Modeling Revolt in
Pickpocket and
A Man Escaped 2. Word and Image, World and Nothingness: Logocentrism and Ironic Reversal in
Procès de Jeanne d’arc,
Diary of a Country Priest, and
Les Anges du péché 3. Man and Animal, Master and Servant: Animals and Criminality
Mouchette and
Au hasard Balthazar 4. The Aftermath of Revolt:
Une femme douce and the Turn to Color
5. Disintegration:
Lancelot du Lac; or, the Failure of Identification and Totality
6. The Agony of Ideas:
The Devil Probably and Revolutionary Discourse
7. The Last Gasp:
L’Argent and the End of Socialism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
