BackChris Marker
(book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Director > Chris Marker
- Chris Marker, director
- Publishing Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Collection
- Contemporary Film Directors
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 205 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15.5 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-252-07316-9
978-0-252-07316-8 - User Ratings
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Book Presentation:
Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetée, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s. His distinctive style and use of still images place him among the postwar era's most influential European filmmakers. His fearless political cinema, meanwhile, provided a bold model for other activist filmmakers.
Nora M. Alter investigates the core themes and motivations behind an unpredictable and transnational career that defies easy classification. A photographer, multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster, producer, and organizer, Marker cultivated an artistic dynamism and always-changing identity. ""I am an essayist,"" Marker once said, and his 1953 debut filmic essay The Statues Also Die (with Alain Resnais) exposed the European art market's complicity in atrocities in the former Belgian Congo. Ranging geographically as well as artistically, Marker's travels led to films like the classic Sans Soleil and Sunday in Peking. His decades-long struggle against global injustice involved him with Night and Fog, Le Joli Mai, Far from Vietnam, Le fond du l'air est Rouge, and Prime Time in the Camps.
Insightful and revealing, Chris Marker includes interviews with the notoriously private director.
See the publisher website: University of Illinois Press
See the complete filmography of Chris Marker on the website: IMDB ...
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