La Jetée by Darke, Chris

La Jetée

Chris Marker's La Jet e is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still...
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Author: Chris Darke
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Language: English
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La Jetée by Darke, Chris

La Jetée

CHF 25.55

La Jetée

CHF 25.55
Author: Chris Darke
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Chris Marker's La Jet e is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, this legendary French film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling time-travel narrative has also influenced many other films, including the Terminator series
and Terry Gilliam's Hollywood 'remake' Twelve Monkeys (1995).

But as Marker rarely gave interviews, little is really known about the origins of La Jet e or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws on rare archival material, including previously unpublished correspondence and production documents, to examine the making of the film. He explores how Marker's only fiction film was influenced both by his early work as a writer and by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and considers how La Jet e's images can be seen to 'echo' throughout Marker's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre.

Author: Chris Darke
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 07/29/2016
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781844576425

About the Author
Chris Darke is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, UK, as well as a writer and film critic whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Sight & Sound, Film Comment and Cahiers du cinéma. He is also the author of several books, including Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts (2000), and the co-curator of the major exhibition, Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 2014.

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