Robert Bresson : Cinematic Style as Philosophy

Pippin, Robert B.

University of Chicago Press（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226845029

Full Description

A philosophical engagement with Bresson's many films, attentive to more than their religiosity.
 
Over a forty-year career, Robert Bresson developed one of the most distinctive cinematic styles in the history of filmmaking. Criticizing conventional movies as "filmed theater," Bresson proposed instead a way of writing with images, which he called "cinematographs." Robert B. Pippin argues here for a way of understanding how these stylistic innovations express a range of philosophical commitments, explorations of the possible sources of meaning in late modern life, and the implications of the absence of such sources.

Contents

1. Truth in Cinema
2. Justice in Diary of a Country Priest
3. Atmosphere as World in Pickpocket
4. Balthazar's World
5. Mouchette's Mind
6. Counterfeit Life in L'Argent
Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments
References
Index
Plates follow page 000.