Jean Vigo (Shadows Book) - Softcover

Gomes, P E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571196101 ISBN 13: 9780571196104

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1998

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Book by Gomes P E Salles

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Reseña del editor:

First published in 1957, but with a new afterword by the film historian, Paul Ryan, this biography traces the extraordinary circumstances of the life and career of the French film-maker, Jean Vigo. Born out of wedlock in a Paris garret full of cats, and haunted all his life by the injustice done to his father (a militant anarchist who was murdered in a French prison in 1917), Vigo spent most of his working life battling against authorities wary of his political background, against censors suspicious of the subversive nature of his films, and against a tubercular condition from which he died in 1934 at the age of 29. Vigo made only four films. Two of them are experimental shorts, but the other two - "Zero de Conduite" and "L'Atalante" - are poetic, anarchic, violent, dream-like creations which are among the seminal works of the French cinema.

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This book traces the extraordinary circumstances of Jean Vigo's life and career. Born out of wedlock in a Paris garret full of cats, and haunted all his life by the injustice done to his father - a militant anarchist who was murdered in a French prison in 1917 - Jean Vigo spent most of his working life battling against authorities wary of his political background, against censors suspicious of the subversive nature of his films, and against a tubercular condition which finally killed him in 1934 at the age of twenty-nine. Vigo made only four films. Two of them are experimental shorts, but the other two - Zero de Conduite and L'Atalante - are poetic, anarchic, violent, dream-like creations which are among the seminal works of the French cinema. This biography was originally written in 1957, but this edition contains an afterword bringing the material up-to-date.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571196101
• ISBN 13: 9780571196104
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288