Chris Marker by Catherine Lupton

Chris Marker by Catherine Lupton

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Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers. This title traces the development and transformation of Marker's work from the late 1940s, when he began to work as a poet, novelist and critic for the French journal “Esprit”, through to the 1990s, and the release of his most recent works.

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Chris Marker by Catherine Lupton

Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers. This title traces the development and transformation of Marker's work from the late 1940s, when he began to work as a poet, novelist and critic for the French journal Esprit, through to the 1990s, and the release of his most recent works.
a gentle, firm, lucid tracking-down of the greatest ever movie essayist.. There could not be a better introduction -- David Thomson The Week sedulously researched and engaging ... a thoroughly necessary guide' - Modern Painters 'Her prose is refreshlingly jargon-free ... Lupton draws thematic connections between isolated moments in Marker's films with an ease born of deep familiarity, and her film analyses are lucid and interesting ... the first complete English-language survey of Marker's work is an invaluble reference Rain Taxi Lupton steers through the maze of Marker's world with admirable clear-headedness Frieze Catherine Lupton's is the first complete study of Marker in English, and she has produced a succinct, comprehensive account of his work London Review of Books
Catherine Lupton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Roehampton University.
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ISBN 13 9781861892232
ISBN 10 1861892233
Title Chris Marker
Author Catherine Lupton
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Reaktion Books
Year published 2004-10-01
Number of pages 232
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