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Book Description: Manchester University Press. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Christopher Lloyd, Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation 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 Orfevres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystere 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. Bookseller Inventory # B9780719070143

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Book Description: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS, United Kingdom, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 216 x 138 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation 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 Orfevres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystere 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. Bookseller Inventory # AAR9780719070143

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Book Description: Manchester Univ Pr, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 192 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0719070147

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Book Description: 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 139mm x 17mm x 207mm. 190 pages. 0.318. Bookseller Inventory # 9780719070143

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Book Description: 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 139mm x 17mm x 207mm. 190 pages. 0.318. Bookseller Inventory # 9780719070143

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