Writers at the movies : 26 contemporary authors celebrate twenty-six memorable movies

Table of Contents: “…(Buster Keaton) / Robert Coover -- The Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman) / Stephen Dobyns -- Ashes and diamonds (Andrzej Wajda) / Deborah Eisenberg -- Babette's feast (Gabriel Axel) / Ron Hansen -- Stevie (Robert Enders) / Edward Hirsch -- A man escaped (Robert Bresson) / Richard Howard -- The dawn patrol (Edmund Goulding) / Philip Levine -- I know where I'm going (Michael Powell) / Margot Livesey -- Breathless (Jean-Luc Goddard) / Phillip Lopate -- Destroy all monsters! …”


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20th century French photography by Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Agnès de

Table of Contents: “…Nancy Pajic-Wilson -- Tom Drahos -- Pascal Kern -- Ernest Pignon-Ernest -- George Rousse -- Jean Dieuzaide -- Edouard Boubat -- Patrick Faïgenbaum -- Alain Fleisher -- Denis Roche -- Pierre De Fenoÿl -- Christian Boltanski -- Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand -- Keiichi Tahara -- Bernard Faucon -- Willy Ronis -- Emmanuel Sougez -- Jean Dieuzaide -- Jean-Pierre Sudre -- Izis -- Edouard Boubat -- Robert Doisneau -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- William Klein -- Man Ray -- maurice Tabard -- Raoul Ubac -- Robert Doisneau -- Jacques-André Bolffard -- Robert Bresson -- Brassaï -- Raoul Hausmann -- Erwin Blumenfeld -- Jean Painlevé…”


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Apprentissage du cinéma franc̦ais : livre de l'étudiant by Singerman, Alan J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Lexique technique du cinéma -- Historie du cinéma I: les débuts -- Historie du cinéma II: les années vingt -- Lecture du film -- Le réalisme poétique -- Jean Vigo, Zeŕo de conduite (1933) -- Jean Renoir, Une partie de campagne (1936, 1946) -- Jean Renoir, La grande illusion (1937) -- Jean Renoir, La règle du jeu (1939) -- Marcel Carné, Le Jour se léve (1939) -- Marcel Carné, Les enfants du paradis (1945) -- Jean Cocteau, La belle et la bête(1946) -- René Clément, Jeux interdits (1952) -- Jacques Tati, Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) -- Robert Bresson, Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (1956) -- La nouvelle vague -- Franc̨ois Truffaut, Les 400 coups (1959) -- Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour (1959) -- Jean-Luc Godard, A bout de souffle (1960) -- Franc̨ois Truffaut, Jules et Jim (1962) -- Eric Rohmer, Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) -- Alain Resnais, Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) -- Agnès Varda, Sans toit ni loi (1985) -- Contexte historique des films -- Pour vos recherches personnelles sur les films français -- Pour approfondir vos connaissances sur le cinéma français.…”


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Babel by Smith, Patti

Table of Contents: “…The sheep lady from Algiers ; Penicillin ; Robert Bresson ; Carnival! Carnival! ; k.o.d.a.k. ; Juana ; The salvation of rock -- Corps de Plane. …”


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Transcendental style in film : Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Schrader, Paul, 1946-

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Star texts : image and performance in film and television

Table of Contents: “…Pudovkin -- A dream of passion : the development of the method / Lee Strasberg -- The training of the actor / Lev Kuleshov -- Short description of a new technique of acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht -- Notes on the cinematographer / Robert Bresson -- Generous stars / Charles Affron -- The performance frame / James Naremore -- Genre and performance : an overview / Richard deCordova -- Articulating stardom / Barry King -- Film acting and independent cinema / Andrew Higson -- Shirley Temple and the house of Rockefeller / Charles Eckert -- Kinesics and film acting : Humphrey Bogart in The maltese falcon and The big sleep / Virginia Wright Wexman.…”


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The Morrow anthology of younger American poets

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Fire season : selected essays 1984-2021 by Indiana, Gary

Table of Contents: “…I did not know Anna Politkovskaya -- Barbara Kruger: the war at home -- The Steilneset Memorial -- Northern exposure -- The brothers -- Romanian notes -- Being and nothingness in American style -- Weiner's dong, and other products of the perfected civilization -- Pasolini, 'Mamma Roma,' and 'La Ricotta' -- The Sadean cinema -- Murdering the dead -- Hazards of a snowball fight -- Missive impossible -- Peak attitude: the novels of Renata Adler -- Parade's end: Echenoz's '1914' -- Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn -- The P and I -- Town of the living dead -- LA plays itself -- Pierre Guyotat's 'Coma' -- Barbet and Koko: a equivocal love affair -- 'Mastering the art of Soviet cooking,' by Anya von Bremzen -- Paul Scheerbart, or the eccentricities of a nightingale -- Unica Zürn -- A Coney Island of the viscera -- Tough love and carbon monoxide in Detroit -- And rats in all the palm trees, too -- Always leave them wanting less -- Hidden in plain sight: Robert Bresson's 'Pickpocket' -- Movie rites -- Disneyland burns -- Daniel Schmid's 'La Paloma' -- Caviani's Ripley -- The serpentine movements of chance -- Notes on Sam -- Hannah and her sister -- Somewhat slightly dazed: on the art of Roni Horn -- Viva Manchette!…”


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Modernist montage : the obscurity of vision in cinema and literature by Sitney, P. Adams

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Cinema Arthuriana : twenty essays

Table of Contents: “…Hoffman -- The Arthurian legend in French cinema : Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac and Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois / Jeff Rider ... …”


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Seeing is believing : the revelation of God through film by Goodwin, Richard Vance, 1981-

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The Arthurian revival : essays on form, tradition, and transformation

Table of Contents: “…Beatie -- Decapitation and deconstruction : the body of the hero in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac / Julie F. Codell -- Whom does the grail serve? …”


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Nobody's perfect ; writings from The New Yorker by Lane, Anthony, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Housman) -- Profiles (The Sound of Music ; Eugène Atget ; S̆vankmajer ; Karl Lagerfeld ; Buster Keaton ; The Oscars ; Shakespeare on film ; Cannes ; Lego ; Obituaries ; Preston Sturges ;Robert Bresson ; Ernest Shackleton ; Alfred Hitchcock ; Muesum of Sex ; The New Yorker at 75 ; Walker Evans ; Astronauts ; Jacques Tati ; Luis Buñuel ; Julia Roberts ; William Klein ; Billy Wilder).…”


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Essays of the 1960s & 70s by Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004

Table of Contents: “…. -- Marat/Sade/Artaud -- Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson -- Godard's Vivre sa vie -- The imagination of disaster -- Jack Smith's Flaming creatures -- Resnais' Muriel -- A note on novels and films -- Piety without content -- Psychoanalysis and Norman O. …”


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The film handbook by Andrew, Geoff, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Robert Aldrich -- Woody Allen -- Robert Altman -- Lindsay Anderson -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Jack Arnold -- Dorothy Arzner -- Hal Ashby -- Richard Attenborough -- Jacques Becker -- Robert Benton -- Ingmar Bergman -- Busby Berkeley -- Bernardo Bertolucci -- Bertrand Blier -- Budd Boetticher -- Peter Bogdanovich -- John Boorman -- Walerian Borowczyk -- Frank Borzage -- John Brahm -- Robert Bresson -- James L. Brooks -- Mel Brooks -- Tod Browning -- Luis Buñuel -- Frank Capra -- Marcel Carné -- John Carpenter -- John Cassavetes -- Claude Chabrol -- Charles Chaplin -- Chen Kaige -- Michael Cimino -- René Clair -- Henri-Georges Clouzot -- Jean Cocteau -- Coen Brothers -- Larry Cohen -- Francis Coppola -- Roger Corman -- Constantin Costa-Gavras -- Alex Cox -- Paul Cox -- David Cronenberg -- George Cukor -- Michael Curtiz -- Joe Dante -- Jules Dassin -- Terence Davies -- Cecil B. …”


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French film, texts and contexts

Table of Contents: “…Beneath the despair, the show goes on : Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-1945) / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas -- Gender politics : Cocteau's Belle is not that Bête : Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) / Susan Hayward -- The sacrament of writing : Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / Keith A. …”


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The writer on film : screening literary authorship

Table of Contents: “…Far from Literature: Writing as Bare Act in Robert Bresson's Journal d'un cure; de campagne (1951); Erica Sheen --…”


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Nobody's perfect : writings from the New Yorker by Lane, Anthony, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Housman) -- Profiles (The Sound of Music ; Eugène Atget ; S̆vankmajer ; Karl Lagerfeld ; Buster Keaton ; The Oscars ; Shakespeare on film ; Cannes ; Lego ; Obituaries ; Preston Sturges ;Robert Bresson ; Ernest Shackleton ; Alfred Hitchcock ; Muesum of Sex ; The New Yorker at 75 ; Walker Evans ; Astronauts ; Jacques Tati ; Luis Buñuel ; Julia Roberts ; William Klein ; Billy Wilder).…”


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French cinema : from its beginnings to the present by Fournier-Lanzoni, Rémi

Table of Contents: “…Jean Cocteau ; A certain Tradition de qualité ; Comedy à la Française : Claude Autant-Lara ; Film noir or film d'ambiance : Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker, and René Clément ; Toward a new cinema : Robert Bresson, Jacques Becker, and René Clément -- The years of the French New Wave. …”


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Never coming to a theater near you : a celebration of a certain kind of movie by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…English Language Films -- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert -- Bhaji on the Beach -- Birthday Girl -- Bloody Sunday -- Bottle Rocket -- The Commitments -- Croupier -- Dead Man Walking -- Deconstructing Harry -- The Deep End -- Devil in a Blue Dress -- Dirty Pretty Things -- Election -- Flirting with Disaster -- Fly Away Home -- Groundhog Day -- Heavenly Creatures -- High Fidelity -- Hilary and Jackie -- The Iron Giant -- Jesus' Son -- Land and Freedom -- Last Orders -- Last Resort -- Lawless Heart -- Laws of Gravity -- Living in Oblivion -- Love and Death on Long Island -- Lovely & Amazing -- Love Serenade -- The Madness of King George -- Manny & Lo -- Muriel's Wedding -- My Son the Fanatic -- Naked -- Next Stop Wonderland -- Out of Sight -- Persuasion -- Pipe Dream -- Pollock -- Proof -- The Quiet American -- Ratcatcher -- Richard III -- Ronin -- Safe -- Searching for Bobby Fischer -- The Secret of Roan Inish -- Secrets & Lies -- Sexy Beast -- The Snapper -- A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries -- State and Main -- The Station Agent -- Strictly Ballroom -- Sweet Sixteen -- Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould -- This Boy's Life -- To Die For -- 12 Monkeys -- Ulee's Gold -- Unstrung Heroes -- Vanya on 42nd Street -- Wag the Dog -- Waiting for Guffman -- Waking Ned Devine -- The Waterdance -- Whale Rider -- Wonder Boys -- You Can Count on Me -- Zoolander -- Foreign Language Films -- After Life -- Aimee & Jaguar -- Un Air de Famille -- Autumn Tale -- The Blue Kite -- Celebration -- The Circle -- Un Coeur en Hiver -- Cronos -- Cure -- The Dinner Game -- Divided We Fall -- The Dreamlife of Angels -- Dry Cleaning -- Eat Drink Man Woman -- The Fast Runner -- How I Killed My Father -- Intacto -- In the Mood for Love -- Italian for Beginners -- Lamerica -- Leolo -- Lumumba -- Ma Vie en Rose -- Monsoon Wedding -- Nowhere in Africa -- Prisoner of the Mountains -- La Promesse -- Read My Lips -- Red -- Russian Ark -- A Self-Made Hero -- A Single Girl -- Spirited Away -- The Terrorist -- Time of Favor -- Time Out -- Tito and Me -- Together -- The Town Is Quiet -- The Vertical Ray of the Sun -- Y Tu Mama Tambien -- Yi Yi -- Documentaries -- Black Harvest -- Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary -- Bus 174 -- The Cockettes -- Crumb -- Dark Days -- The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III -- East Side Story -- Fast, Cheap & Out of Control -- Freedom on My Mind -- Genghis Blues -- Licensed to Kill -- Lost in La Mancha -- One Day in September -- Rivers and Tides -- The Saltmen of Tibet -- Speaking in Strings -- Spellbound -- Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey -- When We Were Kings -- Classics -- Beauty and the Beast -- Das Boot -- Decalogue -- Eyes Without a Face -- Once upon a Time in America -- Peeping Tom -- Pepe Le Moko -- A Streetcar Named Desire -- The Third Man -- Touch of Evil -- Vertigo -- The Wild Bunch -- Retrospectives -- Jacques Becker and Robert Bresson -- Frank Borzage -- Anthony Mann -- Jean-Pierre Melville -- Max Ophuls -- Edgar G. …”


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