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Alain Robbe-Grillet

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Contributors:

By (Author) John Phillips

ISBN:

9780719077371

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Imprint:

Manchester University Press

Publication Date:

1st June 2011

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Dewey:

791.430233092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

176

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm

Description

Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, the book traces lines of influence and continuity throughout this oeuvre which is shown to exhibit a preoccupation with an identifiable body of themes, motifs and structures.

Reviews

"This timely and extremely well-researched study persuasively contends that Alain Robbe-Grillet's somewhat neglected filmic oeuvre has made a much more substantial contribution to the evolution of French cinema than has hitherto been acknowledged, and attempts to rehabilitate his reputation as an innovative avant-gardist film-maker who has expanded the language of contemporary cinema.", Edmund J. Smyth, Manchester Metropolitan University, French Studies, 1 October 2012|This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject.

Philips' study broadly revolves around the psychological, plastic and self-reflexive qualities of Robbe-Grillet's films., Jonathan L. Owen, University of St. Andrews, An Online Journal of Television Studies, Issue 24, 1 October 2012

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Author Bio

John Phillips is Emeritus Professor of French at London Metropolitan University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London

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