Bresson and Others:
Spiritual Style in the Cinema by Bert Cardullo
Bresson and Others: Spiritual Style in the Cinema, by Bert Cardullo
This book first published 2009
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Copyright © 2009 by Bert Cardullo
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-0992-6, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0992-4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................... vii
Aesthetic Asceticism: The Films of Robert Bresson
Take Comfort, Take Caution: Tragedy and Homily in Day of Wrath ......... 1
Neorealism of the Spirit: On Rossellini’s Europe ’51 ............................... 11
A Passage to Tokyo: The Art of Ozu, Remembered ................................. 15
God Is Love: On Bourguignon’s Sundays and Cybèle and Fellini’s
La strada.................................................................................................... 27
Early Bergman, or Film and Faith: Winter Light Revisited....................... 37
Saint Cinema: On Cavalier’s Thérèse........................................................ 41
Close Encounters of a Devilish Kind: On Pialat’s
Under the Sun of Satan.............................................................................. 47
Miracle Movie: On Jarmusch’s Mystery Train.......................................... 55
Mirabile visu et dictu: On Loach’s Raining Stones and Rohmer’s
A Tale of Winter......................................................................................... 61
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