André Bazin: Jean Renoir (1971–) [EN, PT]

This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and François Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle vague. Bazin left this examination of Renoir’s films unfinished when he died in 1958; Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other Cahiers du Cinéma regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoir’s oeuvre, from the avant-garde fantasy of La Petite Marchande d’Allumettes, through the epic humanism of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, to the quiet grace of The River and the profound theatricality of The Golden Coach. Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoir’s work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elaborated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.

Originally published in French as Jean Renoir, avant-propos de Jean Renoir, éditions Champ libre, 1971
Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon
Edited and with an Introduction by François Truffaut
Introduction by Jean Renoir
Publisher W.H.Allen, London & New York, a division of Howard & Wyndham Ltd., 1974
ISBN 0671214640
320 pages

Jean Renoir (English, trans. W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon, 1974)
Jean Renoir: Filmografia (Portuguese, trans. Isabel Lobinho, 1975)

Chris Marker: Around the World with Chris Marker: Lost Horizons / Time Regained (2003)

Two-part feature from Film Comment magazine (May-June, and July-August 2003 issues).

Part I includes contributions by Chris Darke, Howard Hampton, Michael Almereyda, Catherine Lupton, Sam Di Iorio, Chris Darke, and a rare interview with Chris Marker by Samuel Douhaire & Annick Rivoire.

Part II with contributions by Paul Arthur, Olaf Möller, Min Lee, Sam Di Iorio and Michael Chaiken, André Bazin, Kent Jones, J. Hoberman, and annotated filmography by Catherine Lupton, Sam Di Iorio, Min Lee, Michael Chaiken, J. Hoberman, & Chris Marker.

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David Green, Joanna Lowry (eds.): Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image (2005)

“This collection of essays by leading photographic and film theorists considers the changing relationship between the still and moving image in contemporary culture. The photograph has traditionally been seen as a quintessentially still image. Its ability to freeze and hold a moment in time has been the source of its peculiar fascination and the foundation of much of the theoretical discussion about it. New technological developments in digital media, however, have fundamentally altered the ways in which we think about photography, in particular forcing us to reconsider our assumptions about the still and the moving image and their relationships to differing conceptions of time. Amongst the topics addressed in these essays are: the work of artists who extend the still image in time through the use of video or narrative sequencing; the aesthetic and philosophical analyses of stasis; the place of the pose and tableau in contemporary photography and film; the iconography of photography in cinema; the notion of the cinematic fragment and cultural memory.”

With essays by Victor Burgin, David Campany, Mary Ann Doane, Jonathan Friday, David Green, Yve Lomax, Joanna Lowry, Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Garrett Stewart, and John Stezaker.

Publisher Photoworks / Photoforum, 2005
ISBN 1903796180, 9781903796184
183 pages

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