Jacques Prévert From Film and Theater to Poetry, Art and Song |
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| Author:
| Bishop, Michael |
| Series title: | Chiasma Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-420-1329-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $53.00 |
Book Description:
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A wide-ranging study of Prévert's promethean imagination and creativity in the interwoven realms of theatre, film, poetry, art, photography, and song, Michael Bishop's Jacques Prévert seeks to demonstrate the originality of a genial fabricator of image and word whose essential focus, unpretentious yet urgently felt, unintellectualised yet buoyantly and wittily intelligent, ever remains the quality of our daily being-in-the-world, the possibility of our self-transformation, the stunning...
More DescriptionA wide-ranging study of Prévert's promethean imagination and creativity in the interwoven realms of theatre, film, poetry, art, photography, and song, Michael Bishop's Jacques Prévert seeks to demonstrate the originality of a genial fabricator of image and word whose essential focus, unpretentious yet urgently felt, unintellectualised yet buoyantly and wittily intelligent, ever remains the quality of our daily being-in-the-world, the possibility of our self-transformation, the stunning availability - should we truly will it, and despite all that can weigh upon existence, above all ideologically - of joy and love and freedom.