ANTHEM PRESS

The Films of Robert Bresson: A Casebook spans Bressons entire career, with interviews and essays addressing the great auteurs oeuvre from every artistic angle. The interviews presented hereby such noted cineastes as Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Schrader, and David Thomsonelicited authorial comment from an auteur not known for his garrulousness, and they are either as aesthetically inclusive or as journalistically pointed as possible. For their part, the essays in this volume are by such luminous figures as Andr Bazin, Susan Sontag, and Franois Truffaut. Each interview is followed either by an essay on the film discussed in the interview, an essay on Bressons work by the interviewer himself, or an essayistic overview of Bressons career when the preceding interview itself is survey-like. In this way the book bounces the essays and interviews off one another so as to stimulate a kind of semi-continuous critical conversation about the films, their maker, and the interviewers themselves. The result is something that may be as good as criticism itself: enlightened authorial comment.

Readership: Scholars and students of film, French, cultural studies, and media studies; cinephiles in general.

Bert Cardullo is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey. He has written, edited or translated more than twenty five books.

Introduction: Aesthetic Asceticism: The Films of Robert Bresson; Robert Bresson; Bresson on Location; Diary of a Country Priest and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson; Interview with Robert Bresson; Spiritual Style in the Films of Robert Bresson; The Questi