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Title: HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT
By: Christopher Lloyd
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £48.00


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ISBN 10: 1847796192
ISBN 13: 9781847796196
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 19 July, 2013
Series: French Film Directors Series
Description: Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed analysis of his major films. -- .
Synopsis: Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfevres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystere Picasso). Clouzot's films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment. -- .
Illustrations: Illustrations, black & white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press Melland Schill Studies
Returns: Non-returnable
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