{"product_id":"9780199886371","title":"Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film","description":"Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. \u003cem\u003eRobert Bresson: A Passion for Film\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films' cinematographic, imagistic, narrative, and thematic structures, Pipolo provides a nuanced analysis of each film-including nearly 100 illustrations-elucidating Bresson's unique style as it evolved from the impassioned \u003cem\u003eLes Anges du p?che\u003c\/em\u003e to such disconsolate meditations on the world as \u003cem\u003eThe Devil Probably\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e L'Argent.\u003c\/em\u003e Special attention is also given to psychosexual aspects of the films that are usually neglected. Bresson has long needed a thoroughgoing treatment by a critic worthy to the task: he gets it here. From it emerges a provocative portrait of an extraordinary artist whose moral engagement and devotion to the craft of filmmaking are without equal.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120151675120,"sku":"9780199886371","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199886371_p0.jpg?v=1763673465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199886371","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}