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Poetics of Cinema

Raoul Ruiz - Poetics of Cinema
First collection of essays on cinema by the French-Chilean filmmaker.
Book became today inescapable in the landscape of the contemporary culture in search of new narrative models as tool of apprehension of the today world, Poetics of Cinema is an appeal for an entirely new way of filming, writing, and conceiving the image.
Raoul Ruiz (1941–2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer, teacher and theater director. A key figure of the New Latin American Cinema, politically engaged, he was forced to exile after Pinochet's coup d'etat in 1973. His work features over 100 films such as Tres tristes tigres (1968), Palomita blanca (1973), Dark at Noon (1992) starring John Hurt, Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) starring Marcello Mastroianni, Genealogies of a Crime (1997) starring Catherine Deneuve, Time Regained (1999) and Klimt (2006) starring John Malkovich, and Mysteries of Lisbon (2010).
 
published in March 1995
English edition
15 x 21,5 cm (softcover)
128 pages
 
22.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-906571-38-9
EAN : 9782906571389
 
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