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Hitchcock

By: Francois Truffaut

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Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut—providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time. In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to his color films in Hollywood. The result is a portrait of one of the greatest directors the world has ever known, an all-round specialist who masterminded everything, from the screenplay and the photography to the editing and the soundtrack. Hitchcock discusses the inspiration behind his films and the art of creating fear and suspense, as well as giving strikingly honest assessments of his achievements and failures, his doubts and hopes. This peek into the brain of one of cinema’s greats is a must-read for all film aficionados.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501143220

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9781501143229

The Four Hundred Blows

By: Francois Truffaut

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The Four Hundred Blows

By: Francois Truffaut

Presents the full text of the French director's first full-length film, which portrays the restlessness and rebellion of a twelve-year-old Parisian schoolboy

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Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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0936839554

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Small Change

A Film Novel by Francois Truffaut

By: Francois Truffaut

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Small Change

A Film Novel by Francois Truffaut

By: Francois Truffaut

Small Change, shot in the French Provinces, is a story about children. Truffaut has captured the essence of each age group - the verbally precocious three-year-old who pushes the family cat out the window only to follow it nine stories to the ground, the teenage boy yet to experience his first kiss, but hopelessly infatuated with his best friend's mother, the uncooperative eight-year-old daughter of the local policeman who, when left alone as punishment, uses her father's bullhorn to complain to the neighbors she is starving, the brothers who, having insufficient pocket money to buy a stolen compass, cut a younger classmate's hair and borrow his barber money. Small Change contains precise and moving descriptions of the various stages of a secure childhood, of the fun and freedom one experiences as a child, but throughout the film, Truffaut makes a stunning comparison with another child who lives in the same town, who attends the same school. He compares the life of Julian, who is hated and abused by his mother, whose mere existence is despised because he is a child. In Small Change, Truffaut makes an eloquent and traumatic appeal for the rights of children.

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Applause Theatre & Cinema

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0936839511

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9780936839516

Hitchcock

By: Francois Truffaut

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Elle Style: The 1980s

By: Jean Demachy,Francois Baudot

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Elle Style: The 1980s

By: Jean Demachy,Francois Baudot

Elle magazine, leader in fashion and style, has compiled a tribute to the 1980s in a fun, informative and colorful book that will set one musing on what was "en vogue in days past and influencing fashion "a la mode. Creations of major designers Azzedine Alaia, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Issey Miyake and Thierry Mugler are featured, revisiting trends brought to life by the greatest fashion leaders of our time. Photos from the legendary fashion photographers of the decade, Gilles Bensimon, Pamela Hanson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Oliviero Toscani, among others, bring the decade to life. "Elle Style: The 1980s further traces the history of that memorable decade by highlighting noteworthy cultural events, popular music and overall fads. See for yourself how fashion and pop culture are influenced now by the 80s, and how old is continually re-creating itself.

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204

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Filipacchi Publishing

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285018702X

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9782850187025

Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari

Intersecting Lives

By: Francois Dosse

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Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari

Intersecting Lives

By: Francois Dosse

In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. F?lix Guattari was a political militant and director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was unlikely, and the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including "Anti-Oedipus," "What Is Philosophy?" and "A Thousand Plateaus." Fran?ois Dosse, a prominent French intellectual, examines the prolific, if improbable, relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities. Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history--particularly the turbulence of May 1968--played in their monumental work. He also takes the measure of Deleuze and Guattari's posthumous fortunes and weighs the impact of their thought within intellectual, academic, and professional circles.

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688

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Columbia University Press

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0231145608

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9780231145602

Jean Renoir

períodos, filmes y documentos

By: André Bazin

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Jean Renoir

períodos, filmes y documentos

By: André Bazin

Este libro, uno de los grandes clasicos de la bibliografia cinematografica, refleja una especie de encrucijada en el terreno de la teoria y de la critica. Recoge las reflexiones de Andre Bazin sobre el cine de Jean Renoir, el cineasta que mas influyo en el establecimiento de las principales bases de la teoria cinematografica del propio Bazin y en los modelos expresivos de la Nouvelle Vague. Y apunta las nuevas orientaciones que el teorico frances, uno de los mas influyentes en la historia de la critica, empezo a elaborar en los ultimos anos de su vida, dos nuevas lineas que se articulan en torno a los grandes ejes de su teoria: el concepto de realismo y la idea del cine como arte impuro. Pero el libro es a la vez una obra postuma, inacabada y fragmentaria, compuesta de diversos textos que Bazin fue elaborando independientemente a lo largo de su vida con la intencion de completar un libro que nunca pudo terminar. FranC'ois Truffaut, cineasta y critico, se encargo entonces del trabajo de compilacion y el resultado fue el texto que el lector tiene entre sus manos, claramente dividido en tres partes: en la primera, se incluyen los principales textos de Bazin sobre Renoir, incluyendo notas manuscritas que nunca antes habian visto la luz; la segunda reproduce fragmentos de las primeras versiones de algunos guiones, como los de La gran ilusion y La regla del juego; y la tercera incluye la biofilmografia que Bazin publico en el numero especial de Cahiers du Cinema dedicado al director frances, complementada con una serie de comentarios elaborados por algunos miembros de la revista luego convertidos en prestigiosos cineastas, del propio Truffaut a Jean Luc Godard, pasando por Jacques Rivette oEric Rohmer. Y, en fin, el resultado no es solo una de las mejores monografias jamas pub

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Grupo Planeta (GBS)

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8449307198

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9788449307195

The Hermeneutics of the Subject

Lectures at the College de France 1981-1982

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The Hermeneutics of the Subject

Lectures at the College de France 1981-1982

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The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, one of the world's most prestigious institutions. Faculty at the Collège give public lectures, in which they present works-in-progress on any subject of their choosing. Foucault's wide-ranging lectures influenced his groundbreaking works like The History of Sexuality and Discipline and Punish. In the lectures comprising this volume, Foucault focuses on how the "self" and the "care of the self" were convinced during the period of antiquity, beginning with Socrates. The problems of the ethical formation of the self, Foucault argues, form the background for our own questions about subjectivity and remain at the center of contemporary moral thought. This series of lectures throws new light on Foucault's final works and shows the full depth of his engagement with ancient thought. Lucid and provocative, The Hermeneutics of the Subject reveals Foucault at the height of his powers.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349617725

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9781349617722

Book's by Francois Truffaut

Hitchcock

Hitchcock

The Four Hundred Blows

The Four Hundred Blows

Small Change

Small Change

Hitchcock

Hitchcock

Elle Style: The 1980s

Elle Style: The 1980s

Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari

Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari

Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

The Hermeneutics of the Subject

The Hermeneutics of the Subject

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