{"product_id":"staring-back-the-mit-press-9780262083652","title":"Staring Back The MIT Press","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhotographs by one of French cinema's most influential and enigmatic artists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with \u003ci\u003eLa Jetée\u003c\/i\u003e (1962)—a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's \u003ci\u003eTwelve Monkeys \u003c\/i\u003e(1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. \u003ci\u003eStaring Back\u003c\/i\u003e presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include \u003ci\u003eLe Jetée, Sans Soleil, ¡Cuba Si!, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Case of the Grinning Cat\u003c\/i\u003e), others are portraits of famous faces (Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa), but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world (an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083453768023,"sku":"9780262083652","price":33.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262083652.jpg?v=1725548996","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/staring-back-the-mit-press-9780262083652","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}