| Chris Marker Contributor(s): Cooper, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719083648 ISBN-13: 9780719083648 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Performing Arts | Individual Director - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Series: French Film Directors |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.48 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ince the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearthing the stories buried under official reporting. This globetrotting filmmaker testifies to his six decades on the move through a passionate devotion to the moving image. Yet from the outset, his filmic images reveal a fascination with stillness. It is at this juncture of mobility and immobility that Sarah Cooper situates her comprehensive study of Marker's films. Cooper pays attention to the central place that photographs occupy in Marker's work, as well as to the emergence of stillness in his filming of statuary, painting and other static images, including the film still, and his interest in fixed frame shooting. She engages with key debates in photographic and film theory in order to argue that a different conception of time emerges from his filmic explorations of stasis. In detailed readings of each of his films, Cooper charts Marker's concern with mortality in varied historical and geographical contexts, which embraces the fragility of the human race, along with that of the planet. |