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Robert Bresson: Cinematic Style as Philosophy

Robert Bresson: Cinematic Style as Philosophy

Paperback

PhilosophyFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0226845044
ISBN13: 9780226845043
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
A philosophical engagement with Bresson's many films, attentive to more than their religiosity.

Over a forty-year career, Robert Bresson developed one of the most distinctive cinematic styles in the history of filmmaking. Criticizing conventional movies as filmed theater, Bresson proposed instead a way of writing with images, which he called cinematographs. Robert B. Pippin argues here for a way of understanding how these stylistic innovations express a range of philosophical commitments, explorations of the possible sources of meaning in late modern life, and the implications of the absence of such sources.

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