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Chris Marker

By Sarah Cooper

Chris Marker
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  • Publish Date: Oct 2010
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    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 224
    • Price: £19.99
    • Published Date: October 2010
    • Series: French Film Directors Series

    Description

    Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearthing the stories buried under official reporting. This globetrotting filmmaker testifies to his six decades on the move through a passionate devotion to the moving image. Yet from the outset, his filmic images reveal a fascination with stillness. It is at this juncture of mobility and immobility that Sarah Cooper situates her comprehensive study of Marker's films.

    She pays attention to the central place that photographs occupy in his work, as well as to the emergence in his filming of statuary, painting and other static images, including the film still, and his interest in fixed frame shooting. She engages with key debates in photographic and film theory in order to argue that a different conception of time emerges from his filmic explorations of stasis.

    In detailed readings of each of his films, including Le souvenir d'un avenir andLa Jetee, Sans soleil and Level 5, Cooper charts Marker's concern with mortality in varied historical and geographical contexts, which embraces the fragility of the human race, along with that of the planet.

    Reviews

    "This volume, dedicated to the life's work of the artist born Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve, possesses all the impelling power of rattan finger cuffs: once in, it is nearly impossible to get out, as Dr. Cooper's engaging style fairly generates enthusiasm."
    (Robert Dator, Film Matters, 2014)

    Contents

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: Screening Life
    1 The Early Years: 1950-1961
    2 A Second Beginning: 1962-1966
    3 Collective Endeavour: 1967-1977
    4 Continuity and Change: The 1980s
    5 Level 5 and Beyond: 1990 Onwards
    Concluding Remarks
    Filmography
    Select Bibliography

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    Sarah Cooper is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London

    Chris Marker

    By Sarah Cooper

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