La jetée / Chris Darke.
By: Darke, Chris [author.]
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BookSeries: BFI film classics: Publisher: London : Palgrave, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 94 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781844576425 (paperback); 1844576426.Subject(s): Marker, Chris, 1921-2012 | Jetée (Motion picture) | Experimental films -- History and criticismDDC classification: 791.43 MAR | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 791.43 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231289 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Chris Marker's La Jetée is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling narrative of post-nuclear war time-travel narrative has influenced many other films, including the Terminator series and Terry Gilliam's Hollywood 'remake' Twelve Monkeys (1995).
But as Marker rarely gave interviews, little is really known about the origins of La Jetée or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws on rare archival material, including previously unpublished correspondence and production documents, to examine the making of the film. He explores how Marker's only fiction film was influenced both by his early work as a writer and by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and considers how La Jetée' s imagery can be seen to 'echo' throughout Marker's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre.
"A BFI book published by Palgrave."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94).
1. La Jetée … Still -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. Window Shopping in 1962 -- 4. Chris Marker Takes the Stairs -- 5. This is the Story -- 6. The Life and Death of Images.
"Chris Marker's La Jetée is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, this legendary French film which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling time-travel narrative has also influenced many other films, including the Terminator series and Terry Gilliam's Hollywood 'remake' Twelve Monkeys (1995). But as Marker rarely gave interviews, little is really known about the origins of La Jetée or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws on rare archival material, including previously unpublished correspondence and production documents, to examine the making of the film. He explores how Marker's only fiction film was influenced both by his early work as a writer and by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and considers how La Jetée's images can be seen to 'echo' throughout Marker's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre." - Back cover.