Christopher Lloyd
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Lloyd, Christopher
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Abstract
Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a filmmaker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant re-evaluation of Clouzot’s achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystère Picasso). Clouzot’s films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment.
Citation
Lloyd, C. (2007). Henri-Georges Clouzot. Manchester University Press
Book Type | Authored Book |
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Publication Date | Jun 1, 2007 |
Deposit Date | Jul 24, 2007 |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1126828 |
Publisher URL | http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1211 |
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