The Story
Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose lifes work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film historys most elusive figures, Bresson (19011999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and JeanLuc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury France.
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Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose lifes work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film historys most elusive figures, Bresson (19011999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and JeanLuc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history to uncover the roots of the auteur in the alternative cultural marketplace of midcentury France.
