Reviewing Orpheus: Essays on the Cinema and Art of Jean Cocteau

The Orphic cinema of Jean Cocteau in relationship to his theatrical, autobiographic, literary, and poetic work is examined in this book in the context of a critically postmodern problematic. Essays are addressed to the general reader and student who both seek a deeper acquaintance with Cocteau's cinematography and art, and to the specialist who is interested in new approaches to the study and reevaluation of Cocteau's legacy.