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Henri-Georges Clouzot

(book in English)

by Christopher Lloyd

Type
Studies
Subject
DirectorHenri-Georges Clouzot
Keywords
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Publishing Date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Collection
French Film Directors
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 190 pages • 15 €
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)
Also available as an eBook.
ISBN
978-1-7849-9286-6
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Book Presentation:
Now available in paperback, 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 Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les diaboliques, Le mystère 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.

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