Includes bibliographical references (pages 743-745) and filmography (p. 735-742).
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Journal d'un curé de campagne and the stylistics of Robert Bresson / André Bazin -- The universe of Robert Bresson / Amédée Ayfre -- Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson / Susan Sontag -- Robert Bresson: l'aventure intérieure / René Prédal -- The rhetoric of Robert Bresson: from Journal d'un curé de campagne to Une femme douce / P. Adams Sitney -- Cinematography vs. the cinema: Bresson's figures / P. Adams Sitney -- Bresson and Pascal: rhetorical affinities / Mirella Jona Affron -- The 'being there' of the physical world and the ejaculatory power of the eye: eroticism in the films of Robert Bresson / Jean-Michel Frodon -- Bresson in the 1930s: photography, cinema, milieu / Colin Burnett -- Affaires publiques / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- The exchange: narration and style in Les anges du péché / David Bordwell -- On Robert Bresson's film Les anges du péché / Roland Barthes -- Les dames du Bois de Boulogne / Tony Pipolo -- Film form/voice-over: Bresson's Diary of a country priest / Nick Browne -- Bresson's Un condamné à mort: the semiotics of grace / Allen Thiher -- Picking Dostoevsky's pocket: Bresson's sl(e)ight of screen / T. Jefferson Kline -- Pickpocket--revisited, again / Mark Rappaport -- "The sum of a mysterious operation": Bresson's Joan of Arc / Richard Suchenski -- "D'où cela vient-il?": notes on three films by Robert Bresson / Keith Reader -- Terror and utopia of form--addicted to truth: a film story about Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar / Michael Haneke -- Sound as symbol in Mouchette / Lindley Hanlon -- Bresson, Dostoevsky / Mireille Latil le Dantec -- Bresson, Vermeer / Jean-Claude Rousseau -- The sheen of armour, the whinnies of horses: sparse parametric style in Lancelot du Lac / Kristin Thompson -- Bresson's movies / Robert Creeley -- Bresson, a stylist / Harun Farocki -- The organ and the vacuum cleaner / Serge Daney -- "All things conceal a mystery": the hidden God in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar and Le Diable probablement / James Quandt -- Robert Bresson: think, you fool / Luc Moullet -- A stranger's posture: notes on Bresson's late films / Kent Jones -- L'argent / Alberto Moravia -- L'argent / Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -- Led by the scarlet pleats: Bresson's L'argent / Shigehiko Hasumi -- That particular atmosphere: Robert Bresson ... in praise of disquiet / Jem Cohen -- The negative vision of Robert Bresson / Raymond Durgnat -- Robert Bresson: a symposium / Nicole Brenez [and others] -- Robert Bresson / Patti Smith -- The question / interview by Jean-Luc Godard and Michel Delahaye -- Encountering Robert Bresson / Charles Thomas Samuels -- Robert Bresson, possibly / interview by Paul Schrader -- I seek not description but vision: Robert Bresson on L'argent / interview by Michel Ciment -- Burel & Bresson / interview by Rui Nogueira -- With Pickpocket Bresson has found / Louis Malle.
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A biography of Robert Bresson, a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style. He contributed notably to the art of film and influenced the French New Wave.