| Bertrand Tavernier: Interviews Contributor(s): Higgins, Lynn A. (Editor), Kline, T. Jefferson (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1496807685 ISBN-13: 9781496807687 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Performing Arts | Individual Director - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2016018260 |
| Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 239 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941) is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he has directed twenty-two feature films in an eclectic range of genres, from intimate family portrait to historical drama and neo-Western. Beginning with his debut feature--L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974), which won the prestigious Louis Delluc prize--Tavernier has shown himself to be a public intellectual. Like his films, he is deeply engaged with the pressing issues facing France and the world: the consequences of war, colonialism and its continuing aftermath, the price of heroism, and the power of art. A voracious cinephile, he is immensely knowledgeable about world cinema and American film in particular. Tavernier's roots are in Lyon, the birthplace of the cinema. He founded and presides over the Institut Lumière, which hosts retrospectives and an annual film festival in the factory where the Lumière brothers made the first films. In this collection, containing numerous interviews translated from French and available in English for the first time, he discusses the arc of his career following in the lineage of the Lumière brothers, in that his goal, like theirs, is to "show the world to the world." It is no surprise, then, that an interview with Tavernier is a treat. Beginning with discussions of his own films, the interviews in this volume cover a vast range of topics. At the core are his thoughts about the ways cinema can inspire the imagination and contribute to the broadest possible public conversation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kline, T. Jefferson: - T. Jefferson Kline, Brookline, Massachusetts, is professor of French at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including Unraveling French Cinema: From L'Atalante to Caché, and he is editor of Agnès Varda: Interviews and coeditor of Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews. |