Table of Contents

ESSAYS FROM THE 1ST EDITION
Journal d’un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson André Bazin
The Universe of Robert Bresson Amédée Ayfre
Spiritual Style in the Films of Robert Bresson Susan Sontag
Robert Bresson: L’Aventure intérieure René Prédal
The Rhetoric of Robert Bresson: From Journal d’un curé de campagne to Une Femme douce P. Adams Sitney
Cinematography vs. the Cinema: Bresson’s Figures P. Adams Sitney
Bresson and Pascal: Rhetorical Affinities Mirella Jona Affron
On Robert Bresson’s Film Les Anges du péché Roland Barthes
Film Form/Voice-Over: Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest Nick Browne
Bresson’s Un Condamné à mort: The Semiotics of Grace Allen Thiher
Picking Dostoevsky’s Pocket: Bresson’s Sl(e)ight of Screen T. Jefferson Kline
"D’où cela vient-il?": Notes on Three Films by Robert Bresson Keith Reader
Sound as Symbol in Mouchette Lindley Hanlon
Bresson, Dostoevsky Mireille Latil Le Dantec
The Sheen of Armour, the Whinnies of Horses: Sparse Parametric Style in Lancelot du Lac Kristin Thompson
A Stranger’s Posture: Notes on Bresson’s Late Films Kent Jones
L’Argent Alberto Moravia
The Negative Vision of Robert Bresson Raymond Durgnat
The Question: Interview by Jean-Luc Godard and Michel Delahaye
Robert Bresson, Possibly: Interview by Paul Schrader
I Seek Not Description But Vision: Robert Bresson on L’Argent Michel Ciment
Burel & Bresson: Interview by Rui Nogueira
Bresson, A Stylist Harun Farocki
Terror and Utopia of Form
Addicted to Truth: A Film Story about Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar Michael Haneke
NEW MATERIAL
Original Essays
Introduction James Quandt
"All Things Conceal a Mystery": The Hidden God in Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar and Le Diable probablement James Quandt
Bresson in the 1930s: Photography, Cinema, Milieu Colin Burnett
The Exchange: Narration and Style in Les Anges du péché David Bordwell
"The Sum of a Mysterious O

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About the Author

James Quandt is Senior Programmer at Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, where he has organized retrospectives dedicated to the work of Bresson, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Mikio Naruse, Nagisa Oshima, and Shohei Imamura.

Reviews

"A fine, fat volume of appreciations and interviews." Richard Corliss, Time "Important... a very welcome work of reference for professors, librarians and all those interested in the oeuvre of Bresson." Le Figaro "Impressive anthology." Molly Haskell, Film Comment "This, then, really is inarguably the critical study of Robert Bresson." - PopMatters