Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville

The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery...
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Author: Andrew Dickos
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Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville by Dickos, Andrew

Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville

¥4,944

Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville

¥4,944
Author: Andrew Dickos
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonance, and no filmmaker has immersed himself in this project more than Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). Nurtured on American movies, and living through the turbulent years of the mid-20th century, Melville memorialized his wartime experiences in the Resistance with works like Le Silence de la mer and L'Armée des ombres while alternately presenting the stark glamor of his postwar film noir heroes in films like Bob le flambeur and Le Samouraï.

A filmmaker who redefined the rules of postwar independent filmmaking and influenced a generation of New Wave acolytes, Melville was also able to captivate the popular audience with stories of beleaguered existential outsiders-gangsters, thieves, and rogue cops-as they wend their way toward a greater definition of our modern human condition.

Honor Among Thieves profiles this filmmaker's eventful life and discusses his cinema as an essential body of work in our reckoning of postwar European cinema, and of Melville's own influence on the filmmakers who admire him.




Author: Andrew Dickos
Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
Published: 06/23/2021
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781940625478

About the Author
Dickos, Andrew: - Andrew Dickos is the author of Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2002; 2021), Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2013), and Abraham Polonsky: Interviews (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2013).

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